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Back to episode — Episode 678 Scott Adams - Taking Guest Calls on Any Topic. Critics Welcome

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e now I'm outraged I want people to die. I mean like I have a real outrage. So for example when I'm outraged that China is sending us boatloads of fentanyl and killing tens of thousands of Americans, I'm not, that's not pretend outrage. When you hear me say that, when I say that I want Chinese citizens dead that's literal. I want them actually not breathing anymore. I want them executed for killin…

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like her. They have that are on the autism spectrum. But you were talking about how these kind of people can't really lie. Oh they can they can't it's just it's very different than their situation was. You were just gonna fact-check me on that. A lot of people like that in my family and I can tell you that they absolutely can lie. No it's really really well but they just happen to believe their lies.

Yes that would be a fair thing to say. Yes everybody can lie. I don't think you know there probably not many exceptions to that. But the difference is that people on the spectrum are more likely to be socially honest because it's a little less obvious to them that you might take it wrong. So what I'm talking about they can't lie that's really more in this social context. But anybody could let's say if they you know wrecked their car and they needed to lie about it to stay out of jail or something whatever the situation was everybody could do that. Yes you're absolutely right.

Okay good correction. That was worth saying. Thank you.

Let's take Raoul. Raoul if you connect in a minute your technology is working. Raoul are you there? Hello. Do you have a question for me? A little bit of a critical side just to give you a little more of that perspective. Thank you. Yeah just to help you know the conversation. One thing I'm really concerned about is what I call conflating the bad guy with people who what I call you know the bad guy what they've done that's bad. A perpetrator or whatever. And with people who share the same characteristics such as the same nationality ethnicity or particular characteristics such as gun owners for nationality to be Chinese. And what I mean specifically is it if for a lot of people as a foreigner myself and I have my background is I'm particularly sensitive this but as a foreigner myself I what happens this a lot of people don't they they don't really make it necessarily a distinction between. Losing you a connection a little bit.

I think where you're going with that was we should speak with more precision about when we're talking about the government of China versus the people of China. The people of China as far as I know are awesome. As far as I know. I mean the people, the Chinese citizens who immigrated to this country, first generation, second generation, awesome. Some are members of my family as it turns out. So yes it's, that is a good practice every once in a while to step b

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ack and say you know when I'm railing against the Chinese country that's about the government and that's about the government situation but the people, love them. I'm always careful about that when I talk about Iran because the Iranian people are amazing people and we would love to be closer to them. It would be productive and beneficial for everybody but the government of Iran is a problem. I co…

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