Back to episode — Episode 1008 Scott Adams - Protest Theater, Why BLM Are Almost Republicans, Lancet Debunked, Rockets
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The funniest thing that happened at the riots today, and there are quite a few candidates for the funniest thing that happened, is did you see Alex Jones? The funniest. Like Alex Jones somehow got an armored vehicle with a loudspeaker on it and it looked like it was, I don't know, a Hummer that had been outfitted with some kind of armor. So Alex Jones drives into the middle of the protest, not sur…
← Previous segment →But it wasn't the only funny thing. So have you seen the video of Batman? There's some video I just saw. It'll probably be going around later tonight. Somebody's in a Batman costume. The cameraman just sort of follows Batman through. Well, he doesn't do anything except walk through the crowd and act like he's actually Batman. Everybody stops. They're like, "Okay, I guess Batman's here now." Okay, it was funny.
So I tweeted this joke that I knew at least one-third of the people wouldn't think it was a joke. So now I've got Nicolas Fuentes and the Groypers tweeting at me. But I think Nicholas Fuentes is smart enough to know it was a joke. I'm not sure that the other people have quite caught on yet that it was a joke.
But here was my tweet. I said, "Watching Antifa fuck up the Black Lives Matter protests makes me think Black Lives Matter has a point about white people." Now if you can't tell that's a joke, I mean really. Now the reason it's funny at all is because there's some truth to it. But of course like all jokes it acts like something with a little bit of truth is some kind of universal truth, which of course it's not. But that's what makes it a joke, is that your brain is trying to reconcile that it's a little bit true but it's not really generally true. So you have to wrestle with it a little bit. That's what makes it funny. That's what triggers the laugh reflex. It almost makes sense but it doesn't.
So remember that's the whole point of a joke, is that it almost makes sense but it doesn't.
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So it is true that Antifa is messing up what should have been a very clean and effective Black Lives Matter message because that video made it very possible for Black Lives Matter to really gain a lot in terms of empathy and understanding, political clout, maybe gifts, things changed, maybe get some movement and maybe make a difference. There were all these things that could have easily come out o…
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