Back to episode — Episode 2182 Scott Adams - UFOs, Hunter, Trump Indictments, Lots More Fun
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I haven't found yet, and then I never watch any content. So the amount of content made watching content impractical. Would you agree? You understand what I'm saying, right? It's like going to the Cheesecake Factory and they've got the 50-page menu and you're sitting there with somebody who's not good at making decisions about food. Don't go to the Cheesecake Factory. DoorDash. Do not go there with…
← Previous segment →crat-leaning independents are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information. Now this isn't just free speech. It's specifically about false information. So 70 percent of Democrats and leaning Democrats think the government should restrict what is in their opinion false information, and 39 percent of Republicans say the same. So before any of you Republicans get all feeling good about yourself, 39 percent of Republicans think the government should restrict bad information. Really? How did we get to this place? You see the problem is that this requires somebody to know what information is good. As soon as you say somebody's going to be the judge of what good information is and what's bad information, you're dead. You are so dead. If you let somebody decide for you what's true, you cannot live in that world. That is the end. That's the end of the Republic. How do 70 percent of Democrats and 39 percent of Republicans not know that allowing the government to tell you what's true would be the end of the Republic? How do they not know that? What's going wrong here? And my best guess is at least with the Democrats is that they've been so propagandized that Republicans are putting out bad information that they can't see that their own information is bad as well. Is that what's happening? Would you say that the propaganda makes them think that the only bad information is coming from their enemies? They don't understand that the bad information is coming from inside the house, as they still don't know it even after the pandemic. Think about that. Even after the pandemic, when we've learned almost everything the government told us was a known lie, they weren't just wrong, they knew they were lying. And yet the Democrats, 70 percent of them, somehow are not influenced by the fact that we know the government lied to us massively, not only about that but everything from the laptop to you name it. And that doesn't have an influence. Seventy percent of the Democrat leaders and Democrats are not influenced by recent events. They still want somebody to tell them what's true or more importantly to tell the other side what's true.
Here's my take on this. I think it's just a team play response. I think that when people answered the question they were answering as Democrats. Well, I would like my enemies not to talk as much. I think that's what it is. But if you ask them, if you took any of these 70 percent and sat them down and said, what I just had, just the two of you talking, not a poll, say, all right, you know that both sides have put out bad information. Well, yes, that's true, right
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? And you know that if somebody in particular is in charge of telling you what's true, you know that you're in big trouble, right? Yeah, that's true. I mean, I don't think anybody actually holds this opinion. Isn't that weird? People are giving opinions they don't hold because they think you probably have a strategic benefit. I think so. I think people are just answering what would be a philosophi…
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