Back to episode — Episode 744 Scott Adams - Troll Attacks, Loserthink in the News, Bottom Circle People, Lisa Page
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art. The relevant part is that they're all starting with hate and then they're reasoning backwards from that. It's like, well, I hate this group of people, so what's that mean about my political opinions? So that's how I see the world. And the trolls identify the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists all in the same category. I don't make any distinction, and I think that's helpful. All right, let…
← Previous segment →hich case that can change things. But I don't think there's anybody who has business experience or economics experience who would tell you that a good time to change everything like a big risky major change from the ground up into your society and your economics and everything is when everything is better than it's ever been. That's exactly the time you don't do that.
So this is a perfect example of what I call loserthink. Which is that the person involved, Zach Kanter, from all indications is a very high IQ person. So there's nothing about what I'm saying which should be construed as saying anything about his general intelligence because it looks pretty high. But he's got clearly a blind spot for something really important.
Somebody says he's trolling, meaning that you can't tell the difference between parody and reality, right? Because I tweeted that this morning. This is one of those opinions where you look at it, you go, I don't know, is he just a really good troll or does he actually believe this? Then I look at his background, I go, oh, you could believe this. He's got a blind spot for economics.
All right, one of the weird effects of the Democrats' voter shaming project — so that's what's happening now, that Democrats are trying to shame Trump supporters into not voting for him. What is the unintended consequence of that? Well, there are probably a few that we can't predict. Well, one of the unintended consequences is that all of your political polls will be shitty from now on. Would you trust a political poll in an environment where people are being shamed for supporting one of the candidates? No, you would not.
So the voter shaming should have the effect of making all future political polls complete garbage because the Republicans are just going to stop answering honestly. Now, let me make a recommendation. If you're a Trump supporter, you should answer the poll. You know, if somebody calls you and says, let me poll you, you should lie. You should lie to the pollsters because it'd be really funny. I know some people are already doing it. It's obvious to me. It's obvious that some Republicans are just lying. Could be because they don't want to be overheard by their own spouse. That's a real thing. But I would recommend it to all Trump supporters. If you get a chance to be part of a poll, because it's funny, you should lie.
Somebody says we already did. And I've got a feeling I didn't need to tell you that. I think it's just sort of spontaneous
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ly happening. One of the reasons is Republicans like a good practical joke. Am I right? People, conservatives enjoy a good practical joke. And I'm not sure the people on the left have the same type of sense of humor on average. You know, obviously individuals are all over the place, but on average I think the left doesn't like a good practical joke as much as people on the right. So play a good pr…
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