Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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use how do you rank death of children compared to anything? I mean, it's just always going to be worse even if it's just one. It just will feel that way. So be aware that you are being, let's say, unknowingly manipulated to care most about topics with the most faces. And once you realize that, you can say to yourself, okay, is this something we really need to get on this and change it, or is it n…

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could that be serious? How in the world could that be serious? What am I missing? Is there a whole part of the story that they just don't mention here on Wikipedia? Because this doesn't even look a little bit like it's going to happen. Why would you even worry about this? Is it because a lot of people go to Davos, so therefore it looks like it might actually happen?

I don't see any scenario in which the United States gives up control to corporations that self-select. They want to be in control. You're saying it's serious? I've got a real question about it. I feel as if there's something more to the explanation that if you heard it would not sound so bad or crazy. Because remember, Klaus Schwab, he's not only an engineer, he's an economist. So do you think somebody who's an engineer and an economist would come up with an idea that's so obviously bad? I feel like there's something left out. Unless it really is just totally crazy talk.

Maybe AOC is not an economist. I wouldn't say that she just studied economics. Well, maybe. Okay, if you want to say somebody who studied economics is an economist. All right. His father was a full-blown Nazi, somebody says. Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna judge any Germans by what their parents did in World War II. Is that fair? But let's, yeah, can we let go of that? If somebody's parents did something in World War II, I'm gonna let go of that. It's time to let go.

All right, what else is going on? And there's some hoax updates. So this one, not only — I think even the hoax update might be a hoax, I don't know. But there's some lesser publication, lesser known publication. I don't know if they're lesser quality, but they're a lesser known publication saying that FBI documents reveal the US may have funded Charlottesville rioters through Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups. Documents show the ties between the Azov Battalion and the U.S. rioters.

Now I don't doubt that there's some connection between peoples, but I've got a feeling that nobody — I don't think the FBI or anybody was knowingly funding that. But I ask you this provocative question: where are they now? Where are all those people who marched without masks in the age of facial recognition? All those people marched without masks and we never really hear from them, do we?

I feel like you would expect that the news would have found a few a few years later and say, you participated in that march. How do you feel about it? But I don't think you can find them. I don't think you can find them. I'm not so sure they were all totally organic. I mean, I'm not denying the existence of people just like that in the United States, but the events specifically might have had a little bit of theater involved that we don't know about. Not to say that there aren't real racists. There clearly are, which we disavow.

A few more hoax updates. There was a Rupar edit of Biden snubbing Modi, you know, India's Prime Minister Modi. But apparently that's just a misleading edit. So if you see a video that looks like Biden is snubbing Modi, that didn't happen.

Here's another one. Let's see. Oh, there's two fake stories. So CNN is debunking fake stories about Ted Cruz and Governor A

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bbott of Texas. That feels like something, because I feel like they would have just ignored it before. But fairly prominently they debunked two claims against Cruz and Abbott. And so it doesn't matter what they are. I think they're just — well, it matters. One alleges to show that Ted Cruz always says the same thing after every mass shooting, but that's fake. So simply just fake some tweets. And t…

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