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a successful model that was really making money and people liked it I would probably sign up just to see it. I would do that. I mean literally I would do that without the sexual interest. I would see how good it is. Now I did the same thing with the app that gives you a digital girlfriend. Like I didn't think I was going to have a digital girlfriend for the rest of my life but I really wanted to e…
← Previous segment →think you could rule out that anybody in person is saying you know Alex maybe that thing you're looking at is not the whole story or have you considered this? I don't think it happens because it doesn't happen to me and if it doesn't happen to me why would it happen to him? So because I think my situation is normal. You just get closed off in your little bubble and people don't want to make trouble too, right? People don't want to. Since Alex Soros is rich probably his friends who maybe even do disagree with him a little bit, maybe they don't mention it because they kind of like having a rich friend. That's a thing. So I don't think he hears any dissenting opinions in person.
Now do you think he sees them in the media? How often is he reading Breitbart? Zero. How often does he spend time on Fox News? Zero. I'm guessing zero, right? How often does he follow me on social media? He doesn't. I follow him. He doesn't follow me. So my best guess is he's actually has no exposure whatsoever to a countering argument that he would find stronger than his own opinion. And there are counter arguments that are stronger than his own opinion. A lot stronger.
But here's the beauty of the story is that now he posted this thing. He might have noticed that my account countered him because I have a million followers. Remember I told you if I had a million followers I could run the world. This is what I'm talking about. Because the only way I could break through that bubble is if my account is big enough that somebody's going to either mention it to him or he's going to notice it on his own because it's a big account. You need about a million people to break through the bubble on the other side. And then only sometimes. Like you have to do your best work to get in there in any way.
But on top of that the community notes said, so it was added to the Soros post. So community note says on X the five cities with the highest murder rate and their mayors are and it goes St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland and they're all Democrats. So the top five murder cities are all Democrats.
Now the other thing I criticized Alex's post was that murder isn't really the big question. Murder is the worst crime but it's not the big question when we're talking about the liberal DAs. Because unless I'm wrong about this, can you give me a fact check on this? Democrats don't like murder do they? I think they're opposed to murderers. So I don't think there's a giant difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to whether a murderer should be in jail. Am I wrong about that? Aren't they pretty close when it comes to murder? Because nobody's disagreeing like well maybe that murderer should get bail. I don't think so. But all of the other crimes, the property crimes and the lesser violence, those are the ones that really would show if you're looking for what's the impact of a progressive DA.
So when Alex looks at murder rates he's first of all looking in the wrong box. That's not where the problem would be probably. I would look there too but I'm not looking to expect the problem there. So it's a diversion. And if he can get you to think that murder rate is a key metric then he wins because it's not the key metric. It's the one you should ignore the most actually perhaps.
So now that they got a community note and I think Elon Musk actually weighed in on this because the community note and he said those who can't handle reality will leave this platform due to community notes. But the public will increasingly come to realize this is still Musk that X is the best source of truth causing our user numbers to rise as they abandon less accurate sources of information. True. True. Yeah and X is rising in traffic so it's working.
So now there are three things that happened with Alex's, four things actually with Alex's post which are all productive in my opinion. Number one a high account with a lot of traffic in mine countered him in a way which if I may be humble was really succinct and on point. So he could have noticed that. Maybe not but he could have. Number two the community notes makes it a bigger story so the odds that he got fact checked by community notes raises again the odds that he saw it. Number three Elon Musk weighed in in favor of the community notes obviously. So I think everybody notices when Elon Musk comments on their work. Would you agree? How do you not notice if Elon Musk comments on your note on X? So that probably takes it to the next level of he'll probably see it. So that's three things that are working in the right direction.
The fourth thing and again with all modesty if I did a good job of showing that that was the wrong comparison then it also educated a million people to if they see it again say oh that's the wrong comparison. And that's really valuable because that means that Alex Soros might hear it from different places at different times and the more you hear the same thing the more true it becomes, right? So that's the update on that.
The publication called Deadspin which apparently is just a bunch of racists, they said that the NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in blackface and Native headdress. Oh my God. So there was a young boy who was wearing blackface and a Native headdress and she'd be called out for that blackface. Oh except it was only blackface on one side. The other side was painted red because it was the color of the team. Black and red had nothing to do with blackface. So do you know who called them out? Community notes. Community notes for the win. Call them out.
I'm starting to think that community notes, it's in an nascent form so it should get better over time, it's one of the greatest inventions in modern history. It's simple. It's a simple little model and the model is that people of all types, left and right leaning, have to agree on the note or it can't go forward. So community notes doesn't have the option of being biased because the other people will say nope nope too biased and that's it. It just doesn't go anywhere if one side says that's biased. But if one side says somebody's talking about the murder rate in these cities and the side that wants to make the opposite point says we're just going to say what the murder rate is, do you disagree that the data we're using is correct? And then the left says oh that is on point and the data is correct. What are we going to do? We don't love it. We don't love it but we're honest brokers and what you're saying is on point and it is honest. That's huge. The fact that that works at all is just amazing. It's really o
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ne of the greatest things I've ever seen invention wise. As an invention it's just one of the greatest things. All right. Let's talk about the Musk trip to Israel now that we've got a little time to digest it. You know Elon Musk had been accused of being an anti-Semite for something he said that was obviously taken out of context. Advertisers left because of the protest. So partly to address that…
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