Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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when Ukraine is ready for a counteroffensive, the Russians won't have much left. Do you think they always planned that or that's just the way it worked out? And the other thing is, how does anybody know what Russia has in reserve? Do you think we really know what they could or could not do? I mean, we were fooled before. And do we know what Ukraine can and cannot do? Does anybody think this war is…

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tion. What do you think is going to happen with trans athletes in the long run? In the long run, I think the trans female athletes, the ones who are competing on the female teams, I think they'll be banned in the long run. They'll be banned. That's the only thing that makes sense.

All right. So there was — I think I didn't talk about this yesterday — so there's some indication from a trans activist who is somebody who transitioned and wished they hadn't. I forget who it is. And their claim is that a lot of the interest in transitioning is coming from TikTok videos. Have you heard that before? Because we keep asking why are there so many trans all of a sudden, and one theory is that it's all TikTok. That TikTok is glorifying the trans life and it's so influential it's causing people to become trans.

Now, could I make a better argument for banning TikTok than this? TikTok, meaning China. Allie London was the name of the activist.

TikTok is now powerful enough, and China owns TikTok. China is now powerful enough through TikTok that they can change the gender of your children. They can change the gender of your children. They can also make your children go from happy to sad and depressed. They can make your children work less, care about their country less, and eat junk food and do all kinds of dangerous... and China can do that now.

You might say to yourself there's no evidence that China has done that. Well, there's definitely evidence that they don't allow TikTok in their country. It might not be something they have to do. Maybe it's something they simply unleash and then TikTok does what it does, and it's all bad impulses, you know, codified. So they say, well, if we did that in our country it would be the same, so we won't do

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that in our country. Yeah, I don't think that China has to necessarily push the heat button to make something go viral. I think they just have to wait and TikTok will do all the bad viral stuff itself, you know, because that gets the most clicks. So they don't even have to be actively putting their finger on the scales. They simply have to make it available and then not make it available to their…

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