Back to episode — Episode 2710 CWSA 01/04/25
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s and Amazon says wait a minute this was real, you took down a real one, it's just your competitor, well then I should be removed from the system forever, right? I should never be allowed to sell on Amazon if even once I report my competitor when in fact the competitor is doing nothing wrong. So I would put the ability to take down a copyright or just other violation, I would put that on the vendo…
← Previous segment →re damage than a terrorist for any given six-month period or a year whatever. But there's no way these are the same level of risk. You know whatever happens from individuals is going to be one terrible act that probably had multiple deaths. But if you're being attacked with waves of attacks, you know maybe a thousand or 1,500 terrorists who were in the country who are going to die trying, that's a whole different deal. I mean that's really different. So MSNBC continues to be a joke.
If you're not following on X the account of Sean Ono Lennon I recommend it. He's very interesting. Now what's interesting is that you really can't tell if he's Democrat or Republican by watching his account and I love that because he weighs in on a lot of topics that are in the news but you really can't tell. And the reason you can't tell is because he just takes a common sense approach to things that we normally just take the hyper-partisan approach to. So he is very good at just being interesting and not giving away bias, just telling you what the thing looks like.
So he had this comment today. He said I think overall people are less easily fooled now than they were in the past. Part of the disintegration of cohesive society is a result of this awakening. I really hope it leads somewhere good. I worry that it won't. So he's noticing that people are learning to be less easily fooled. Do you agree with that? People are learning to be less easily fooled? He's half right. It's only happening on one side and the people who make an effort to see what the other side is saying. So somebody like Elon Musk is watching both arguments and so he decided to kind of change teams because he saw both arguments and he's the kind of person who can figure out what the fake stuff is.
I would argue that something happened on the conservative side of politics that did not happen or even close on the Democrat side. And that is that there were people like me and I could name 10 other people who are going ou
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t of their way to debunk fake news on the other side but also to teach you the tools for doing it yourself, which is what I do. I try to teach you all. Right, for example I say if the news only has one source and it's an anonymous source you should treat that as zero credibility. Now that's not what people would have done automatically. Most people would have said well it's not proven but they got…
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