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Back to episode — Episode 1776 Scott Adams - The Highlight Of Civilization Is About To Begin

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of like two countries. One is poor America where things are terrible and one is rich America where things are better. And they don't have the same gun violence rates. Not at all. So again there's something much larger than having a gun or not having a gun that's causing people to die or not die. Also interesting that gun deaths were correlated with more suicides which is largely a white person pr…

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hat tweet, everything turning racial, here is how I would high-ground the hell out of it and destroy whoever came after me with this attack. I would say you know I'm running against somebody who has a one-variable filter. For them everything runs through the race filter. And I too think that the race filter is an important one. You don't want to lose sight of that. It's been a big factor in the United States forever.

But I would suggest that you want somebody who works for you who can handle more than one filter on the world. That's what I'm going to bring. I'm not going to lose the filter that race is a big factor and we need to keep an eye on that. We need to make things as fair as we can for everybody. But if you're voting for somebody whose only filter is that, if everything looks like a nail to them they're only going to bring you a hammer. And I'm going to bring you the whole toolbox.

So if you want to fix more than one thing I'm your person. If you feel there's only one thing that needs to be fixed — and a lot of people do, to be honest — then a one-hammer candidate might be your candidate. But I'm going to offer you more than that for the same price. Who doesn't like a bargain?

I'll handle the fairness issue as best I can and as transparently as I can and I'll listen to everybody's complaints and I'll be serious about it. But also try to solve all their problems. And I won't see everything through the lens of race because I don't thi

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nk it's good for you. So that's my proposition. For the same price — because I would get the same salary as a congressperson as anybody else — for the same price I'll bring you more tools and I'll work on more problems and I won't see it through that one frame and you'll get a complete candidate. Am I done? Imagine listening to me as a hypothetical candidate just giving you that proposition. It w…

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