Aug. 5, 2019 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
05:57
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| Hey everybody. | |
| I'm coming to you early because I gotta hit the road today, but I didn't want you to miss the simultaneous sip. | |
| No, you don't want to miss that. | |
| The news is going to be just full of the usual bad news aftermath of the pig shootings. | |
| And I feel like talking about that doesn't help us a lot, but we will anyway. | |
| But first, grab a mug or a glass or a cup, a stein, a chalice, a tankard. | |
| Could be a thermos or a flask. | |
| Could be a vessel of any kind. | |
| Fill it with your favorite liquid. | |
| I like coffee. | |
| And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. | |
| Of the early simultaneous set. | |
| That's good stuff. | |
| Yeah, I got up early, 4.30 this morning. | |
| I've got to do a little traveling. | |
| I just didn't want to leave you hanging in case you were sitting there at the appointed time waiting for your sip and that it didn't come, and how sad would you be? | |
| So, let's just talk for a moment about assigning blame for these shootings. | |
| First thing I'd say is that if you see anybody giving you one reason for why there are all these shootings, That person has no credibility. | |
| So if you see somebody say, it's because Donald Trump, or it's because no fathers, or it's because guns, or it's because white supremacists, whatever it's because, if there's only one thing that follows because, you're not talking to a credible person. | |
| You're talking to somebody who has a political agenda and that's it. | |
| You could just stop listening after that. | |
| So here's my advice. | |
| If you hear the shooting happened because followed by one reason, doesn't matter what the reason is, ignore everything that that person says after that because that's not a credible person. | |
| We have no idea how to stop any of this stuff. | |
| If we did, we would have done it by now. | |
| And... But one of the things that we're going to grapple with in the aftermath of this stuff is what exactly is the risk from radical white supremacists? | |
| I'm trying to wrap my arms around that and I don't really have an answer, do you? | |
| Because the trouble is that other types of risk have the potential to take big numbers quickly whereas the white supremacists As awful as it is, they seem to be, I hate to say, smaller if dozens of people are dying, but in terms of comparing it to 9-11, for example, it's smaller. | |
| So I don't know how you could add that up, because the risk is what happens in the future. | |
| The risk is not what happened in the past. | |
| And the future is unknowable. | |
| So we don't know if there's going to be more of it or less of it, or it'll trickle along like it is, and the trickle will get stronger until there are two per day. | |
| We don't know. But the other thing is, they're not all going to be motivated by the same thing. | |
| Now, how many of you have had a chance to see the El Paso Shooter's Manifesto? | |
| I'm wondering how widely that's getting out there. | |
| I know some people are finding it, and I've seen it, or I think I've seen it, meaning that you can't be sure of anything these days. | |
| So a lot of you have seen it. | |
| Okay. Now, it was sort of hard to figure out what he was up to, because on one hand, he had a high IQ, you could tell by the writing. | |
| On the other hand, it didn't quite hold together, his thesis. | |
| So you don't know exactly what he was up to, but what I got out of it, see if you agree, is that while he had some racial opinions, he seemed to be motivated primarily by having fewer Democrats. | |
| Is that how you read it? | |
| It didn't look like it was racial in terms of why he was shooting people. | |
| The reason he was shooting people, according to the manifesto, remember it's a crazy person so we don't know why any crazy person does anything, but according to the manifesto he just wanted to make sure that the Democrats didn't get a voting majority and take over Let's say Texas as a democratic country, and immigration would do that. | |
| Yeah, that doesn't make you less evil, for those of you who are pointing that out. | |
| Yeah, I wasn't defending him. | |
| I know there's somebody who's going to say, are you defending that guy? | |
| No, I'm just reading his manifesto. | |
| There's no defense. But he was weirdly non... | |
| So he had a racial view of the world, but he didn't go out, he didn't directly say there's something wrong with anybody else. | |
| It was more like he said that there exists other people and it's hard for them to get along, which is, you know, I think what anybody would say. | |
| So I think people are going to jump to judge him as a white supremacist, but when I read the manifesto, It wasn't that obvious. | |
| Maybe it was, and maybe we'll find out that the subtle hints are exactly what we think. | |
| Alright, my car is here, so I'm going to have to bail out early. | |
| But I will talk to you all tomorrow. |
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