Back to episode — Episode 279 Scott Adams - Domestic Terror and Who Does It
Context —
et's say they were offended, deeply offended. Most people say yes. If a hundred percent of the people disliked it. Suppose it was just one person in the whole world. Just one person. Should you remove the statue? No it's just one person. You got the whole public wants it to stay. What if it's 40 percent of the public is deeply offended? Yes. Yes if 40 percent of the public is offended by a public…
← Previous segment →tter it becomes a magnet for all the people that are sort of too misbehaved if I can use that word. Right? Yeah it's all subjective but in Twitter context they're the misbehavers are most drawn to Gab. The people who are not misbehaving in a way that Twitter cares about, in other words people who are not conservative, why would they leave? It would be crazy to leave Twitter if you're a liberal or if you're on the left or even if you're just not conservative. It would be crazy to leave Twitter because that's the bigger, more robust place. More people on there. There's multiple points of view etc.
Gab unfortunately because of their business model became a magnet for the people who got kicked off of Twitter and the people who are just duplicating their exposure on another platform. That's not a business model I can imagine working.
So when people say hey weigh in here you've got to support Gab I say it's not a free speech question. It's not exactly a free speech question. It's sort of a business model question. And I feel like supporting Gab's business model unintentionally supports people that I don't really want to support. Because if you keep in mind that Gab quite publicly kicked the shooter of the synagogue, they kicked him off, they deplatformed him as soon as they found out what he was up to but not until the shooting. And I think to myself if Gab is kicking people off how long will it be before they have to change their business model to be basically the same as Twitter's? You know which is banning people who say things that you feel are dangerous or don't help the country.
So I think those two models have to either come together or Gab, I don't see how they can make it. Now I am concerned as all of you are that the big tech companies are deplatforming them. So I think who was it their credit card processing companies, their server companies, might be some other entities have deplatformed them. Now I don't like that because it kind of puts those people in a censorship position when they should be bankers. You know the bank should just be a bank. I don't think that they should be stifling free speech. But so that's where I am on Gab.
And so the reason I don't say my opinion quickly like hey Gab is great or hey I don't support them, the reason I don't do that is it's complicated. And I wanted to do that here. Gab does not promote violence. I never said they did. I agree with you totally. Saying dangerous things are not allowed anywhere. That is correct. But keep in mind if you were a neo-Nazi but you had enough self-control not to actually advocate violence online you would have a happy place. And that's problematic because people don't want to go where the only people there are the ones who couldn't make it on Twitter. It's just the business model just doesn't quite make sense even though I love the idea of it. I have nothing against you know the, of course the you know I'm pro entrepreneurial people so nothing against the team. I'm glad that people are enjoying it. The people are using it. But it's a tough one to just say you support it or you don't because it's complicated.
All right. Hello for a bishop. Ratch my old office. Kim.com is creating an alternative to Twitter. We will believe that when we see it. See the problem is that Twitter has the, I think you'd call it the network effect in which if you're already on there there's not much incentive to leave.
Somebody said they want the Scott Adams degree. I've actually thought of defining what that would be. So the Scott Adams degree would be some kind of combination of things you've read or studied that would be interesting. Because I think that's the place the world should go. We should have degrees that are not conferred only by colleges. You know I've said that someday if I could get the let's say the Bill Gates degree which means I just learned two things that Bill Gates thinks a successful citizen should learn, whatever that is. It could be just borrowing a couple of classes from different places. It could be books you have to read. It could be you had to try a startup on your own. Could be anything. But whatever Bill Gates says this is the Bill Gates degree. If you do these things you've got the Bill Gates degree. That could really do things forward.
And my next to the elevator I am. Oh you're in a ding but that was some other ding but I had an extra elevator. He has no degree himself. That's true. Bill Gates did well. He has a high school degree. You're sure sleeves were too long on Ben's video. Ben Shapiro. So that's the same shirt I'm wearing right now. I thought it was the same shirt. Oh now I have another shirt. I better watch that.
What's in the new chapter for Win Bigly? The new chapter is an update on my predictions so you can see how things went compared to how I thought they would go. Some things I got wrong. Some things I got right. I need a tailor. I do need a tailor.
All right. Blexit. Let's talk about Blexit. So apparently reportedly Kanye designed the Blexit design and t-shirt. And I love the, I guess it would be the subtitle. You know the title is Blexit and then the subtitle is We Free. I don't know why that is so perfect. We Free. You know because it does the, the persuasion wise what it does is it's a mistake right? Because the proper way to say it is we will be free or we're trying to be free or we are free. But when you say we free it makes you stop and you can't not think about it longer.
So I don't know if Candace came up with that. I don't know if Kanye came up with that. But it is kind of genius. It's kind of great. I got to say specifically because you know exactly what it means and your brain can't get off the fact that there's a word missing. Now of course it might be also calling back to sort of an urban way to express yourself and that just makes it perfect too. I mean so it sort of hits a lot of notes.
Charlie did somebody says I don't believe that. I don't believe a white guy could suggest we free because it doesn't sound like it would be culturally the same. So my guess is either Candace or Kanye or somebody associated with them. But it's a great slogan. It's a great design too. I love the design. I love the slogan. I love the name Blexit. Some people have said it should be Blackxit but no Blexit is better. Absolutely. And we'll see if it makes any difference.
Somebody says Kanye and Candace designed the shirts together. Well you know you always have to be careful there may have been somebody else involved as well. So I don't want to give credit without knowing exactly who but my guess is that at least Kanye and Candace were key authors of that. I don't know who else was.
You're sounding like Larry David a little. A little. Probably a lot. Somebody said they're glad I'm on their team. Well you should be.
Talked to Hawk. I just was texting with Hawk. So Hawk has some things he wants to add to the discussion on rhetoric from the president and violence in society. And I said I was very interested in seeing that. So he'll be coming to us at some point soon on that topic. And always interesting to hear his thoughts.
All right. He's going off the rails people are saying. Well here's the thing. I believe Hawk wants to make a positive difference in the world but it's a toug
Context —
h situation to try to find common ground when people are so polarized. So if he tries a few different things, if he tries a few approaches I would ask you to have a little bit of patience because nobody knows exactly what's going to work. Sometimes he needs to pace his team. Sometimes he needs to reach across and nobody knows exactly when is the right time and the right way to do that. So he's out…
Next segment → →