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that. We don't mention the part where we make you willing. And then we have to touch you by the way. That's like the greatest unspoken secret of hypnosis is that it's sort of always happening. Like you can't turn it off. It won't matter if you know. And the swinging watch thing, that's not part of hypnosis. That doesn't buy you anything. The ladies of Coffee with Scott Adams calendar coming soon.…
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Yeah. So one more topic. House passes landmark bill to protect same-sex marriages, sending it to Biden's desk. Well that's what Congress is for. That's what Congress is for. So do you think it makes any difference that there would be a federal law making it legal for same-sex people to get married? You think that makes any difference? I mean it makes a difference in the sense that there are some states that might try to ban it I know. Has anybody been damaged by a gay marriage?
So here's the thing. You know I always talk about A-B testing. Gay marriage has been tested, has it not? Is there some big emergency problem from all the gays getting married and they cause some problems that I don't know about? If I had to guess I'll bet you the gay marriages are successful at least as successful as any other kind and maybe more. I mean I'm leaning toward maybe more but I don't know. The reason I say more is that it just makes sense to me that two people of the same gender would have a little bit more in common in the sticking together area. It seems like it'd be some advantage. Yeah birth rates would be affected but still freedom requires that we get to decide if we have kids or not.
So would you agree with my statement that gay marriage has been tested, thoroughly tested, and that there doesn't seem to be any downside at all? Would you agree with that statement? What's the downside if you think there's a downside? Mention it. Well churches lose tax status. Yeah that's maybe that's a sub issue. That's a different issue but that's an important one. Yeah okay. Well I would so I guess that's my take. My take is you don't need to test something that's been that thoroughly tested. And once something is tested and it works you keep those. So to me this looks like a good evolution. It evolves us from something we tested and most people agree now. I'll accept that maybe other people are disagreeing with it but even you would agree that it worked even if you don't like it, right? Would you agree? Yeah I mean it hasn't caused any problem I can see.
You know what you never hear? I don't want to be walking in that neighborhood at night because it's an LGBTQ neighborhood. You know because those dangerous criminal LGBTQ people might beat me up if I go there. You know I don't think there's any demographic group that has been more successful than the LGBTQ community. I mean talk about people who are definitely adding to your country. They're adding a lot. A lot really. You doubt that? You don't think the LGBT community is yet another super advantage of America? Because if you do you haven't been paying attention because they're killing it. They're killing it in all kinds of domains you know and always have. You know from Newton to Da Vinci to maybe Tesla. You know aren't some of the most famous successful people in the world they were known to be gay, right?
So if you look at let's see was it Indonesia that just made premarital sex illegal but I'm sure they have some views about the LGBT community. Don't you th
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ink that a country that gives full appreciation to the LGBT community gets more value, a lot more than a society that oppresses them? Isn't it obvious? Would anybody disagree with that? To me it's obvious. It's like this entire historically super successful community that why would you want to suppress some of your most successful people historically? Yeah I know. So I think that's something we do…
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