Aug. 20, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| There was a fellow who said, you know, Bitcoin is a bubble or a Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme or something like that, right? | |
| And I looked at his profile and he's a handyman. | |
| There's nothing wrong with being a handyman. | |
| It's a noble profession and I find handymans to be very helpful. | |
| I'm not particularly handy myself, so they're great. | |
| if I were to post and say, all handymen do is rip people off and cheat people, he would be offended and upset and would have every right to punch back at me sort of online metaphorically, right? | |
| And so if he says, oh, Bitcoin's a bubble, it's like, well, I have been talking about this in pretty positive ways for almost And so if it's a bubble or a cheat or a Ponzi scheme or something like that, then I'm a dishonorable guy. | |
| And so if he's going to attack and insult my honor, I went and said, listen, you're a handyman. | |
| Go fix a gutter and let smarter people solve the problems of the world. | |
| And know your lane. | |
| I don't go around lecturing people who've been studying chess for 40 years on how to win at chess. | |
| Because I'm not insane. | |
| I'm not. | |
| And we need to preserve knowledge, preserve respect. | |
| When people treat me with disrespect, I have earned respect. | |
| That doesn't mean I'm always right, but I've earned consideration and the benefit of the doubt. | |
| Not only because I'm. | |
| right a lot, but also because if I'm wrong, I will self-correct and publicly apologize. | |
| And I did this just the other day when I got some math stuff wrong. | |
| So I have earned respect and people who don't pay me respect when I've earned it. | |
| And I'm not saying the first time they meet me, but you know, after they've been around for a while. | |
| Yeah. | |
| People who don't pay me respect. | |
| well, no, now you owe me an apology because you kind of called me a doucheback. | |
| Now you owe me an apology and then you owe me respect after I break it down to you and it works. | |
| Like, you know, you don't have to agree with me. | |
| And that's the portion that I wasn't getting was, even if someone doesn't agree with, like, for example, like your opinion on geriatric pregnancy, oh, I can have a kid at 45, you could show them so many graphs and data and stuff like that. | |
| And they can still not agree with it. | |
| That doesn't mean that you're not a respectable individual. | |
| But to these sub 90 IQ, sub 95 IQ individuals, I think just respect is agreements. | |
| rings, that's not, that's simply not the case. | |
| And so, especially with a person like you, you've been on Twitter now. | |
| How long, how long have you been back since the ban? | |
| Like about a year now. | |
| But no, no, no, no. | |
| My account got restored, but I've only been back posting for like two and a half months or something like that. | |
| Maybe, who knows? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| It fell, it fell way longer than I apologize. | |
| Well, it's like in some tweets. | |
| Yeah. | |
| He recognizes it, people. | |
| But yeah, that amount of going through trials and tribulation, coming back and posting on X, that requires respect, not requires acceptance. | |
| And how do I put it? | |
| If an individual doesn't understand those two concepts individually, they must be of a lower, I don't want to say IQ bracket, because that sounds disingenuous, but it just seems as if they were from a lower, what's what I'm looking for here, Stefan? | |
| Well, I would say lower cognitive perception. | |
| Now, that doesn't mean low IQ necessarily, because there are people who have sub 95 IQ who have a great deal of common sense. | |
| And there are people with IQs of 160 who can talk themselves into just about any. | |
| florid bullshit that you can imagine. | |
| So I would just say that they certainly lack integrity and that is not to me specifically related to IQ, perhaps at the lower end, you'd have a great deal of difficulty with it, but. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| I'm just, I've only really, I've only really only ever seen this with people that are, I don't want to say like, like, I've only ever really seen this with people of like, lower socioeconomic status or like, lower, how do I put it, lower education, you know, I'm trying to say, like, I never see someone at like a, I never see someone at a country club requesting respect, requesting respect when it really means agreement. | |
| You don't really see that with like the upper, I don't say upper echelons, but just like the better part of society. | |
| I've really only ever seen it as a lower class thing to really demand respect as a snakeful term for agreeance. | |
| And so that's why I bring up 90 IQ, you know what I'm trying to say, but no worries. | |
| Yeah, that's interesting. | |
| The upper classes have different ways of enforcing it. | |
| They tend to enforce it according to leftist ideology in that they won't demand respect, but they will ostracize the living shit out of you if you don't fall in line behind their particular moral shibboleths. | |
| So that's a little bit different, but... | |
| Yes. | |
| so on X, if somebody comes up. | |
| at me strong, and that's fine, you know, I don't, I don't particularly care. | |
| It's just that I'm not going to engage with someone like that unless they apologize. | |
| Because if they can't admit that they're wrong by insulting me without any particular cause, why would I try to educate them about anything? | |
| Because they're never going to admit that they're wrong and it's going to be complete. | |
| This is why apologies are so important, because apologies indicate that the person can self correct. | |
| And if someone can't self correct, why would you engage with them for any intellectual task or correction? |
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