Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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universe because you happen to be the right gender at the right time in history that probably would raise your testosterone wouldn't it? Because you would just walk around feeling like oh yeah I'm in charge. Now what would happen if instead you were born in the more current era and you were told that boys are the cause of all problems which isn't too far off from what's happening right now right?…

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ost stereotypically racist let's put that out there. What would be the most stereotypically racist thing you could imagine would be that you know a Black organization stole a bunch of money right? That's what the racist brain would go there immediately. And then the story comes out that looks like that's exactly what happened.

Your first instinct shouldn't be well I told you so. If your first instinct was I told you so well you might be a racist. Your first instinct should be could be true but your first instinct should be that's a little too close. A little too on the nose. So just be warned about this one okay? I don't know that is fact that I'm not or fiction and I'm not going to predict either way so I don't have an opinion whether it's real or not. I'm just saying that whenever you see one that's this close to exactly a racist trope is that the right word? You got to ask yourself is it real? You just have to ask yourself.

All right. But allegedly that's, we don't know who's in charge and money's missing and the two remaining BLM board members, so there are two board members who are different from the two directors who were appointed right? So there's still two board members. We know who they are and they were asked for a comment and they did not return numerous requests for comment.

All right I give up. This story might be exactly what it looks like. It might be.

So I asked this poll on Twitter today. A little poll. I said were Antifa, BLM and Occupy Wall Street real movements that suddenly evaporated or were they always Democrat scams? So when at last I checked 77 percent said they were always Democrat scams and 23 percent said that they were actually real organizations or that they weren't sure. 23 percent. 23 rounding off 23, 25, 25. This will come as no surprise. Our idiots. And it's a very consistent result.

Now I believe I have delivered on my claim that I would show you that every major topic of any complexity has to branch into different stories. Once you see this you will say to yourself wait a minute maybe the problem isn't cognitive dissonance. Maybe cognitive dissonance is a necessity. It's the only way the simulation that runs our reality

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can handle the complexity. My story and yours don't have to match anymore because I'm in my own subjective reality and it'll never make any difference if your story and mine never match. So every future story even if it doesn't line up perfectly with Democrat and Republican should branch into multiple versions because it has to. And that ladies and gentlemen is the reframe of the day. I believe…

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