Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25 — Scott Adams Philosophy

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vil war. You know, grab your gun. And I always wonder how many people actually think that the US is close to a civil war. Because again, I don't know what hellscape that is you're living in, but I don't know anybody who's close to a civil war. It's just you see some strangers on social media say, yeah, it's time for that civil war. But I don't know a real person who thinks the civil war is necessa…

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es, there will be a civil war that you think is necessary. If you say no, the genie will make sure there's no civil war. Do you think you could get 4% of the respondents to say, hm, yeah, let's do the civil war? Because I'm a little skeptical. I feel like it might be close to zero people would actually say yes to that.

So I don't think the US is close to a civil war. No, nowhere close. We don't even have protests unless they're funded by dirty money backers. We don't even have spontaneous protests. We only have the paid professional activist kind of protest that nobody thinks is an indication of what people are thinking. Rather, it's just political theater. So as soon as the Department of Justice and the FBI said they were going to look into the funding behind the anti-ICE protests in LA,

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suddenly all the protests stopped. Huh. Interesting. As soon as they were going to look into the real cause of it. So that was never real. Those protests were obviously activist and funded. So Elon Musk is modifying his plans for starting a new political party. So instead of primarying every single Republican who voted for the big beautiful bill, which is something he threatened, he's now saying…

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"If you say yes, there will be a civil war that you think is necessary. If you say no, the genie will make sure there's no civil war. Do you think you could get 4% of the respondents to say, hm, yeah, let's do the civil war? Because I'm a little skeptical. I feel like it might be close to zero people would actually say yes to that."

If a genie let you choose between triggering a 'necessary' civil war or guaranteeing peace, virtually no one would opt for war. This shows the US is nowhere near actual civil conflict.

"We don't even have protests unless they're funded by dirty money backers. We don't even have spontaneous protests. We only have the paid professional activist kind of protest that nobody thinks is an indication of what people are thinking. Rather, it's just political theater."

There are no genuine, spontaneous protests anymore—only paid professional ones funded by wealthy backers. They amount to political theater and reveal nothing about what ordinary people actually think.