The Border, DEI, Trump, Islam, BLM & the Misinterpretation of Data

The Border, DEI, Trump, Islam, BLM & the Misinterpretation of Data | Sam Harris

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On today’s episode of Impact Theory, I’m joined by Sam Harris to discuss the profound impact of cognitive biases on decision-making and explore the nuanced interplay between truth, misinformation, and societal trust.
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, best-selling author, and podcast host whose work focuses on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
In this episode, we tackle the complex landscape of political and social issues, from the importance of relying on experts and institutions to the contentious debates around homelessness and systemic inequality.
We touch on:
- The media’s role in the misinterpretation & distortion of ideas
- Factors negatively affecting trust in experts & institutions
- Cognitive biases & the illusory Truth effect
- Second-order consequences of communication
- Trade-offs in engaging with controversial topics
- Dilemma of preserving democracy vs. free information flow
- Impact of political manipulation on institutional trust
- Importance of understanding arguments despite disagreements
- Class-based views & institutional change on societal issues and policy
- Proposing solutions for inequality & advocating for meritocracy
- Impact of poverty on education & brain development
We also address hot-button topics like homelessness, the balance between free information flow and preserving democracy, and the critical importance of the peaceful transfer of power.
Prepare to challenge your perspectives and gain new insights on navigating today's complex world!
CHAPTER MARKERS:
[0:00] People & incentives
[14:26] Shared resources in society
[36:39] Second & third-order consequences
[53:17] Toxic information landscape
[1:31:38] Balancing institutional trust with rational decision-making
POWERFUL QUOTES FROM SAM HARRIS:
"If you have the right system of incentives, you can even have sociopaths effectively behaving like saints because they're just appropriately incentivized to do that. Whereas if you have the wrong incentives, you can have people who are nearly saints behaving like sociopaths, because it's just that the incentives are just overwhelmingly aimed in the wrong direction."
"Just what sort of society do you want to be in? Do you want to be surrounded by desperate, envious people? Or do you want to be surrounded by creative, self-actualized, happy people who can be your customers and who are going to, who are going to celebrate your success when you do something visibly successful?"
"And our default sense is that someone should be free to live out the chaos of their mental illness or their drug addiction or their violence in front of us and even die in front of us on the sidewalk."
"We're awash in misinformation and lies. And so our information landscape is just polluted with toxic waste."
"Do you really want a president whose son is sniffing blow off of a hooker?"
"It's SO important to have institutions we can trust."
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Themes: Mindset, Finance, World Affairs, Health & Productivity, Future & Tech, Simulation Theory & Physics, Dating & Relationships

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@TomBilyeu 25 күн бұрын

WARNING: I will never ask for your contact info in the comments section, that is someone impersonating me!

@henrythegreatamerican8136 24 күн бұрын

John Stewart recently made a good point in one of his Daily Show updates. If you want the truth, start watching the actual court cases and completely ignore the media. In court, you need evidence. You need to support your claims. You need to actually prove things. The media is not held to the same standard. He went on to show what Trump and many republicans were saying in the media and how it 100% contradicted everything they said in court. There was no way they could prove those false accusations in court. In other words, you can't just make stuff up in court or you will actually be held accountable and jailed.

@bigm317 24 күн бұрын

Please start putting the time stamps on specificity what the title says it’s really hard to skip to find that part usually , love it vids thank you

@BarakHussein 24 күн бұрын

sam harris why wont you talk about jewish Supremacism? not once did he condemn the genocidal statements made by Ben Shapiro, dave rubin and bibi nethenyahu

@bluesky45299 24 күн бұрын

Quran says: “Allah:there is no deity worthy of worship except he”:The Neccessary life/consciousness,sustainer of life/consciousness.” Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea(“Fitra”)that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology via “god of randomness”/”Emergent property”/”law of nature”. Consciousness can only stem from Necessary Consciousness (Allah-one/indivisible/loving/self-sufficient infinite perfection).

@thelonewrangler1008 24 күн бұрын

So what you're saying is that you won't be sending me the $10k after I sent you $1k in Amazon gift cards?

@PremjitTalwar 8 күн бұрын

On the subject of high crime incidents among blacks, Tom Bilyeu and others make the argument that blacks' circumstance and background are to blame. Underprivileged Jews who came to the US faced similar discrimination and harassments (they still do, facing bias and anti-Semitism). The early immigrant Jews however, despite their poverty and lack of opportunities, dedicated themselves to hard work and their children to education. Same with the Chinese community. As an example, my black roommate at MIT described the harsh circumstances of his childhood in Chicago. He credited his mom for telling him not to spend time with other black kids playing in their rough neighborhood. She told him if he sees blacks on his sidewalk, he should cross the street to the other side. She knew a thing or two about the problem.

@RO-uz4oi 2 күн бұрын

Immigrant Jews came from a background from which hard work and education were known paths to success, whereas American blacks came from a background where hard work was a life sentence and education was discouraged.

@fgm1696 19 күн бұрын

Sam is brilliant. He is absolutely right about a lot of things happening today!

@waltbianchi8862 18 күн бұрын

Many but not all

@goarmysleepinthemud. 11 күн бұрын

@@waltbianchi8862pretty much all. Nobody on the right can stand up to his arguments.

@Jay-ft3xh 9 күн бұрын

@@goarmysleepinthemud.american politicians have never been in the business of truth.

@razorback0z 2 күн бұрын

"I don't care if Hunter Biden literally has children's bodies in his basement, provided covering it up stops Trump from becoming president". Sam Harris

@tensaijuusan4653 20 күн бұрын

Sam Harris is so right on his ideas about dealing with the drug addicted mentally ill homeless.

@Richard-sg7sj 19 күн бұрын

In the end, what was his solution? He him’d and haw’d around what really needs to happen (intervene in the lives of these people that need obvious help) but was too much of a P-word to just say it. That’s the problem I have with guys like this who think they are so smart and have all the answers. They don’t.

@bankiey 13 күн бұрын

@@Richard-sg7sjhe said you have to intrude into their lives, and institutionalize some of them

@Jay-ft3xh 9 күн бұрын

@@Richard-sg7sj you clearly have a lot of problems. You've yet to state anything remotely valid. Keep learning sweety.

@roblangsdorf8758 Күн бұрын

But to implement Sam's ideas about dealing with the homeless, Californians need to vote out the Democrats who are controlling what is done in these cities and in the state.

@motorhead48067 24 күн бұрын

If you want to retain your sanity you simply cannot read the comments of any alternative media podcast Harris goes on 😂

@trentntb5437 24 күн бұрын

lmao seriously. truly amazing how dumb people are

@matthewpittelli4451 23 күн бұрын

It appears that many in Tom's audience have brain worms.

@neurotransmi77Er 23 күн бұрын

you mean the sense making aparattoooree

@toddharvey7089 22 күн бұрын

Yes the phenomenon of "anti-samitism" has taken hold strongly in some quarters.

@atamtaki9336 21 күн бұрын

After listening to Harris, Kissin and Bileou it is hard to value Harris' words. Sorry

@surfingmoose 24 күн бұрын

Eating popcorn while reading the comment section

@Danette8206 24 күн бұрын

Not qualified to have this conversation When you only speak to a people as “they” shame on you

@firefly9838 24 күн бұрын

You know the cult is going to be seething the second he criticizes their supreme leader😂

@krs1968dec 24 күн бұрын

The best part of KZfaq

@govcorpwatch 24 күн бұрын

Far too many great comments are #CensorTubed. It's now a verb.

@ItsameAlex 23 күн бұрын

41:00 "Nothing to do with skin colour" No offense, but it's funny to me that Sam Harris is wayyyyy more based on race than all these conservatives and libertarians that host him. Tom had a little white guilt freak out there. Gosh Darn It I really wish Devon Tracey was famous.

@Nonofurbzness 24 күн бұрын

Tom you’re missing the point. Black homes are more likely to not have a father in the home. They need to fix this cycle of fatherless homes. I don’t think your guest is wrong. People want to be offended so as to not take responsibility for their actions

@FuturaNos 24 күн бұрын

What data supports that. I want to look it up

@researchtwins 24 күн бұрын

System won’t admit why fathers aren’t in the home…Moynihan Report was in the 60s and they haven’t said anything else since.

@Malt454 24 күн бұрын

Even if that's true, who are the "they" that need to do the "fixing"?

@ashleeferguson8589 24 күн бұрын

And don't forget where the black father's went

@researchtwins 24 күн бұрын

@@Malt454 the establishment…

@benjaminschaub9412 23 күн бұрын

Sam Harris is brilliant and I can only dream of our government institutions being filled with practical minds like his. Just a dream.

@codycoldbrewski572 23 күн бұрын

Never heard of anyone describing Sam as such

@wellnesspathforme6236 20 күн бұрын

Unless he's scared by propaganda and begins parroting corrupt empire dictates like they came from the God he doesn't believe in. Then his brains turn to mush. Or when it is time to fess up to mush brains. No integrity, IMHO.

@SaviorMoney-777 19 күн бұрын

He's a psycho

@777mofo 18 күн бұрын

The government is filled with people like him. Sam is shortsighted, lacks imagination and is wrong on almost every point. Its like they are paid to not comprehend the larger issues.

@zacshifler 18 күн бұрын

The main issue i have with harris and guys like dawkins is that they assume their are vast populations of people that are as intelligent as they are. There certainly are not. Most of their ideas would not scale

@BridgesOnBikes 24 күн бұрын

26:45 - this is so spot on. Categorical errors in the sizing of our problems is so poisonous because political campaigning on emotional responses that overvalue any singular problem’s credibility is the backbone of the click bait era.

@Quinston82 24 күн бұрын

No offence, but that is a word salad.

@neurotransmi77Er 24 күн бұрын

@@Quinston82 read my mind

@Scarletpimpanel73 24 күн бұрын

Correct. That's my problem with the Trans and anti trans activism, while I sympathize with a view, it's entirely low prio. It's like trying to fry tadpoles when there's a tuna in the water. I am cynical about the whole "WOKE is the end of the West" thing as much as I am cynical about DEI. These are tribalising smokescreens. We have important threats to our institutions, we have global wars, we have a looming fiscal crisis, and we have a looming global energy crisis. There's bigger things.

@thefamilydog3278 23 күн бұрын

This is actually pretty straightforward. Not sure what peoples’ confusion is all about?

@neurotransmi77Er 23 күн бұрын

@@thefamilydog3278 none trys to get parkinsons disease to comb their hair.

@chrisocony 23 күн бұрын

I'm not sure I am a fan of Tom, but I do appreciate many of his sentiments and the way he goes about the discussion. High level and showing that Sam truly WAS an influence on him. Steelmanning - YES.

@Cliporis 17 күн бұрын

"30 thousand feet in the sky, everyone's an elitist" - the power of Sam Harris to hit home with one sentence

@SaviorMoney-777 14 күн бұрын

Ridiculous and completely irrelevant analogy. Worked on you though, didn't it?

@FoulBundy 14 күн бұрын

@@SaviorMoney-777 Can you do one better without AI help?

@SaviorMoney-777 14 күн бұрын

@@FoulBundy about what?

@FoulBundy 13 күн бұрын

@@SaviorMoney-777 The analogy, obviously. Or are they using those 50 IQ bots again?

@reneeepona 12 күн бұрын

Tom, I appreciate your interview style. I tend to get bored when there’s no banter back and forth and one person drones on and on. You keep it interesting!

@JonathanLoganPDX 24 күн бұрын

You two do a great job of disagreeing being respectful working through things checking in and feeding each other information back and forth. Thank you so much! We need more of this exact kind of conversation.

@BMTroubleU 16 күн бұрын

"Idiot compassion" is a great new term for me 😂

@longrange270 24 күн бұрын

In a free nation, you should be free to succeed and free to fail.

@kourtneyrice8667 24 күн бұрын

Outstanding information,with world crisis,rising inflation and economic instability due to poor governance, consider digital assets as a means to attain financial freedom.

@christophersimeon3025 24 күн бұрын

Absolutely! Building a strong investment that isn’t controlled by the government is a smart move in todays unpredictable economy. digital assets offer a unique opportunity for financial independence.

@firefly9838 24 күн бұрын

And what happens when everyone fails? Or near everyone fails? Do you really watch a disaster movie and hope they just shrug and do fuck all about it? If so... you may need to seek mental help...

@longrange270 24 күн бұрын

@firefly9838 Then obviously what they were doing was the wrong thing. Adapt and overcome.

@xenatron9056 24 күн бұрын

and others are free from the responsibility of your failure... that is what makes America great, you can shine... well, it used to be like that anyway, hope it comes back.

@anthonytroia1 18 күн бұрын

I wanted to watch advertisements, so I came here.

@jasondashney 15 күн бұрын

I didn't so I spent $15 to avoid 100's of ads every month.

@goarmysleepinthemud. 11 күн бұрын

@@jasondashneypaying for the new cable, nice one.

@xyzzyi5315 11 күн бұрын

@@goarmysleepinthemud. It's not perfect by any means, but if you watch KZfaq enough, it seems like it might be worth it. There are people who pay hundreds a month for cable.

@ghostlack 2 күн бұрын

@@jasondashney can't you just use some sort of ad blocker?

@Frazer247 17 күн бұрын

What an excellent interview! I found Tom very objective in his approach to understanding Sam's position. It takes humility and a high intellectual quotient to accept a well-presented argument that is opposite to what you believe. It takes high IQ, EQ, and ICQ (intellectual curiosity quotient) to understand Sam's arguments.

@rogerbritus9378 10 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, I didn't see the same from Sam, especially at the end, where he defends his blind trust in institutions that have consistently deceived the public.

@lonecandle5786 22 күн бұрын

Tom keeps going back and forth between talking about an editorial decision to hold off on a story until it can be investigated, and straight up lying. Those are not the same thing and conflating the two is confusing.

@Tombilyeu31 19 күн бұрын

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@mwilliamson4198 17 күн бұрын

Right. Exactly. The most recent trend as Matt Taibbi has documented (for example in the recent coverage of the "hospital bombing" in Palestine) is that the mainstream media run with a story, then when it turns out to be fundamentally incorrect they use the defence that "this is what they knew at the time". Of course related to this, is that when they are caught outright lying/propagandising for covid they never really admit that they were COMPLETELY wrong, and the sometimes conflate this with the "this is what we knew at the time" defence

@TL-vp8uh 7 күн бұрын

And I'm guessing he does that intentionally to fit his bias.

@lonecandle5786 7 күн бұрын

@@TL-vp8uh I would think that he does so unintentionally. And if bias is the cause, it would be working to make him not realize that he is doing it.

@silenicakes 9 күн бұрын

Sam may be one of the best in the world at describing a problem in perfect crystal-clear detail, using the perfect words, perfect metaphors, and perfect analogies. He may also be the best in describing what exactly needs to change with people's current problematic thinking, and exactly the point at which their thinking turns bad. After listening to him for years though, I finally realized why he's still frustrating to listen to. He never seems to get to a concrete, actionable solution. He spends all of his time lost in the (literally perfect) descriptions of the issues.

@sartajaziz5930 6 күн бұрын

Lol no. Sam is a bigot who made his career by presenting bigoted anti Islam views in a so-called "intellectual" way. When in reality his views are no different than a low income skinhead from Europe.

@saattlebrutaz 2 күн бұрын

Except he supports the mass murder of Palestinians, so there's that.

@KevinGetch 24 күн бұрын

Incredibly valuable conversation 🙏🏼

@BridgesOnBikes 24 күн бұрын

Tom, this was one of your best! Clarifying the difference in how you and Sam value second level consequences in regard to information distribution and its impact on political outcomes was extremely helpful. It got me to understand where I disagree with Sam as well. I was constantly thinking that I know he’s correct on his perspective but it wasn’t jiving with my view. I just boiled down to differing value assessments. Brilliant talk! I love you both.

@lilamnbdh967 24 күн бұрын

Thank you so much Tom for sharing this conservation🙏❤️

@wowsew 23 күн бұрын

haha Tom looks like he took a 16 year olds outfit to go undercover, good episode tho love Sam :]

@7JeTeL7 21 күн бұрын

i cannot overestimate how spot on are both points of that sentence!

@TimDeadmenVP 15 күн бұрын

Hello there fellow children!

@JD.......... 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for the conversation. Sam is an I,operant voice regardless of the contentious topics at hand.

@timedowntube 23 күн бұрын

"a liability in even having the conversation" that is line that no-one is fit to control, regardless of its shades of truth.

@MattTheGunner 18 күн бұрын

I disagree. As society becomes more and more complex, we have to outsource more and more to make decisions about anything. I’m not suggesting blinded trust, but as he says we have to sufficiently invest enough into our institutions to be able to reliably trust that we have safety rails in place to prevent corruption / malicious practise in these arenas. We outsource so much of our perspective to people that we trust are dedicated and close enough to the given topic that we can reliably choose to agree with.

@rogerbritus9378 10 күн бұрын

@@MattTheGunner I see the opposite, less and less of that with the diffusion of information through a multitude of channels in the internet.

@VictorPalaciosRubio 23 күн бұрын

Regarding the lowering of education standards (black doctors vs jewish or asian doctors). There is a similar story in Mexico, where for many years the standards of education were lowered in the public universities were the poorest of the population go that most of the companies in Mexico explicitly reject students from those universities. For a while even in their job ads they would say something like "we do not hire from such and such universities". Perhaps now it is illegal but in practice they still do it.

@lamonicajones7543 13 күн бұрын

What is your point in referencing lowering the education standards and minority doctors?When you visit your doctor do you ask he or she what did they score on their MCAT exam to become a doctor? A passing score is at least 511 or higher and a 127 is the minimum in each sections. Do you ask them how they scored on each section because their medical exam scores and not the which college they attended should be more important in determining if the doctor is good. Americans love to swim in the swallow end of their judgement of the minority community verses swimming in the deeper end to grasp the knowledge and facts that should really concern them.

@rogerbritus9378 10 күн бұрын

@@lamonicajones7543 If meritocracy applied to all equally, then our (and your) concerns wouldn't exist.

@Jay-ft3xh 9 күн бұрын

Fox news did a number on this clown

@jakedg4165 24 күн бұрын

20 years ago we shipped all our jobs for normal people to make a good living over to china. now you work retail to get through college then you get an office job, not everyone fits that mold. also everything wouldnt be expensive if the world had something todo with the dollars they get from selling us their stuff.

@mitch758 23 күн бұрын

more like 50 years ago.

@davepeterschmidt5818 11 күн бұрын

That happens because Chinese workers will work for much less than American workers will. So, the only way to bring jobs like that back to the USA is to institute tariffs on goods manufactured using low wage workers.

@heatfield4243 6 күн бұрын

Can't listen to an interviewer who talks more than the guest.

@christoptosis364 24 күн бұрын

Sam's bumper sticker at the end: "Given the fallibility of the human mind, we need institutions." I really need help squaring what seems like a big issue with this: those institutions are comprised of humans who have fallible human minds. Further, I have read a lot about group psychology, and there are very clear arguments that groups of human minds are prone to types of fallibility that individual minds aren't. I want to follow Sam's argument, but the line of thinking seems to reliably truncate right before this issue, and I really need this addressed.

@RollingStockChallenge 23 күн бұрын

He tends to compare institutions to the the modern alternative: Conspiracy thinking on podcasts. Do you really want Joe Rogans guests building the foundations of society?

@familyshare3724 21 күн бұрын

There are very few institutions that have any remaining credibility. NASA maybe?

@familyshare3724 21 күн бұрын

@@RollingStockChallengeopen discussion, public debate, why not?

@wellnesspathforme6236 20 күн бұрын

@@RollingStockChallenge Yet Rogan was right on CovFeFe and the self-serving, for profit, corrupt, weaponized virus making, e-mail covering up, zero accountability government was wrong... but their insiders made $100s of billions more in being wrong than in being right... and it is turning out most of the people they silenced were right -- probably silenced precise;ly because they were right!.

@jessicastrat9376 19 күн бұрын

I think he’s comparing it to the scientific method where each scientist is bias, but when each is pitted against one another with rules of engagement, the scientific institution works better than any on of its components?

@BrianDeCosta 24 күн бұрын

God I love a respectful convo

@lovetownsend 6 күн бұрын

Sam Harris, one of smartest moral people alive today.

@samdg1234 2 күн бұрын

Any studies providing evidence of that? Or are you just a sycophant?

@lovetownsend 2 күн бұрын

@@samdg1234 Idk what sycophant means actually

@samdg1234 2 күн бұрын

@@lovetownsend Would it not have been as easy to google it as to post that comment?

@aatt3209 24 күн бұрын

Another incredible conversation worthy of revisiting over and over again.

@motess5304 24 күн бұрын

is this Sam or Toms burner account? 🤣🙄

@Peter-yc2uh 24 күн бұрын

@@motess5304 Neither - it's a great talk. Don't like it? Move along to your right-wing rage-bro bullshxt podcasts.

@stranger2Utube 16 сағат бұрын

Thank you Tom ❤

@lonecandle5786 22 күн бұрын

Not sure what good we get by speculating about Hunter Biden's laptop.

@gpumn1 19 күн бұрын

So let’s not speculate. Take it before the courts. He is being charged after all on drug/gun charges.

@grumpyoldman6503 14 күн бұрын

@@gpumn1he was convicted but realize this is old. I guess the system works and we can all go home?

@chriscox4936 Күн бұрын

It contains evidence of the former VP (current president) getting kickbacks and taking bribes. That's why.

@fleekwoodmac3705 13 күн бұрын

"You don't want the DEI version of brain surgeons." Classic Sam.

@_Jack_Miller 24 күн бұрын

What kind of "democracy" do we have when propaganda and political hit jobs are the norm?

@govcorpwatch 24 күн бұрын

One where the "government" that pretends to represent "you" is actually a corporation "UN member-state" franchise that is acting as an "OCCUPYING BELLIGERENT POWER" under law of war, authorized by the UN. They aren't your gov't. They aren't democracy. They aren't democratic. The "US Constitution" doesn't apply to you given that they've been making you a global citizen called a UN National since before you were born, 1947. Go read the UN UDHR via legalese.

@grumpyoldman6503 14 күн бұрын

We don't. We have an oligarchy of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. You use terms like "democracy" but fail to paint a target on the legal corruption which subverts the process and erodes good faith in the democratic process and institutions.

@Jay-ft3xh 9 күн бұрын

America has never been democratic at the federal level. Not for one day. Americans live under oligarchical socialism.

@davidlenett8808 24 күн бұрын

A sufficient amount of popularity is what steers the news cycle? I feel Sam's frustration when the inmates in the editorial space and alternative media are running the asylum. We no longer have hard hitting journalism, geared towards solving societal ills, we have, "if it bleeds it leads", infotainment (and TikTok University). - We're all fucked. 😔

@bryandraughn9830 24 күн бұрын

Gotta love it when the ad pops in and your entire reply vanishes into thin air. It probably wasn't that important.

@ardensolari1927 23 күн бұрын

When "Costco" starts giving out law degrees... then I'll worry.

@goarmysleepinthemud. 11 күн бұрын

@@ardensolari1927you are the frog in the boiling pot of water

@KidSaleen 24 күн бұрын

Excellent, especially the second half

@leehearn6366 24 күн бұрын

"The reason the Gini Coefficient matters is ... poverty isn't a problem, poverty next to wealth IS a problem" - Tom Bilyeu

@gwills9337 23 күн бұрын

Extremely low iq take. poverty is absolutely a problem. Poverty in the face of wealth is an evil. Just because one is bad doesnt make the other okay or not a problem. lmao

@wattlebough 24 күн бұрын

Systemic racism? Where’s that happening?

@Fydthetrainer 24 күн бұрын

You've ever been to any westernized country, or anywhere on planet earth? Ignoring the problem only perpetuates the problem. Yt ppl who sit amongst their racist friends and family saying and doing nothing is where it's happening. Two yt boys talking about black issues with the absence of blk ppl to chime in, is the problem they have zero experience the same as yiu

@rogerc23 24 күн бұрын

China, Africa, India, Thailand, Malaysia.

@mikebasketball11 24 күн бұрын

@@rogerc23 How would you describe the Racism in these countries, in your own words?

@josephposenecker9741 24 күн бұрын

@@mikebasketball11Laws on the books that give certain ethnic groups one set of rights and then a different set of rights for another ethnic group.

@Peter-yc2uh 24 күн бұрын

@@mikebasketball11 Yeah. It's bizarre but true. i've lived abroad for decades. After a while you just get used to the racism.

@seanhagan1435 24 күн бұрын

Tom seems to think that a direct democracy or a republic is superior because the people choose what they want directly or via representatives. This is categorically false. The only thing you can consistently count on is the people will choose incorrectly most of the time. Also, how the Representatives don’t follow through with voting for what people elected them for. So, you can’t count on the people within a democracy. If you don’t believe this, just think about Islamic countries that are democracies and how the people voted into power in the United States, conservative Christians for the South, and the woke folk in the liberal cities and the West Coast. Democracy is a superior government because it allows the people to complain about their government and, most importantly, transition to a different government peacefully and without bloodshed. That is why Trump threatens American democracy and why Sam sees what happened on January 6 that much more damming than the Hunter Biden laptop thing, which is a minor political corruption scandal at best by comparison

@mostwantedmotor 14 күн бұрын

Democracy also can fail with corruption, misinformation, tyranny of the majority and slow bureaucracy. If those become the norm Democracy becomes a chaotic hellhole of racism, inequality, rebellion and inefficiency.

@chriscox4936 Күн бұрын

Democracy is an illusion.

@mrespanfanx 22 күн бұрын

A great conversation - thank you!

@Tombilyeu31 19 күн бұрын

@lonecandle5786 22 күн бұрын

Tom is acting like Sam controls all media and is keeping key information from people. It is one podcast. There are plenty of other blogs, podcasts, and media that can talk about it. If the people interested in it find something important, they can advertise it and others will pick it up.

@wwiels 18 күн бұрын

Does this host always introduce his question with a 25 minute circular monologue?

@benwarnock 11 күн бұрын

Borderline unlistenable

@StaticSilence1 11 күн бұрын

sometimes, unfortunately.

@oidokun 11 күн бұрын

Yeah, he is a moron. Can’t believe he has 4 million subs, dark times indeed.

@cristianmarolda5521 9 күн бұрын

Yeah he's always like that

@marwar819 7 күн бұрын

Mindboggling that this host has 4M [if that's true] subscribers. He's now jumped on the political bandwagon, more profitable than his total obsession with his success and body. I never liked him. I'm only listening because of Sam.

@jackwood4299 6 күн бұрын

The interviewer is unbearable! Likes the sound of his own voice too much, let Sam speak more!

@canadianroots7681 20 күн бұрын

If we want a functional meritocracy, we need to change school funding models so that the quality of education in the poorest neighborhoods is equal to the quality in the richest neighborhoods.

@Holmefjord93 23 күн бұрын

Thank God for Sam Harris. I appreciate him a ton !

@ItsameAlex 23 күн бұрын

@Holmefjord93 23 күн бұрын

@@ItsameAlex Haha, no offense Sir. But you have to be a complete idiot, or just wildly confused or ignorant to even suggest that someone like Sam Harris would even be remotely interested in things like "race" in that sense 😆

@broledge-facts 23 күн бұрын

@@ItsameAlex idnians earn twice the amount of whites in the usa, whites twice the amount of blacks... hmmm

@2113pinch 24 күн бұрын

It sounds more cultural and customs than race. Why are recent and poor Koreans, Indians, and Vietnamese do well in two decades? 🤷🏾‍♂️

@ashleeferguson8589 24 күн бұрын

Because they weren't enslaved in this country and everytime they built something it wasn't burnt down by racist white people. Did you ever ask why they couldn't make it in their country and came over here.

@francesblack2168 24 күн бұрын

Do Poor Koreans, Indians, and Vietnamese come to American and live where they can afford like the ghetto. Do they go to inadequate and dilapidated schools? Why not, they starting from the bottom right?

@ItsameAlex 23 күн бұрын

self selection, "brain drain)

@77zztop 23 күн бұрын

Perhaps those most successful immigrant minorities have stronger family ties, cultural roots and values, etc. Other less financially successful minorities in the US have broken families, no strong feeling of cultural belonging, less connected communities.

@ashleeferguson8589 22 күн бұрын

@@77zztop that's what I mean African Americans whole culture was slavery, jimcrow, civil rights, Willie lynch, dealing with white supremacy ect directly effected who we are and how we move

@lonecandle5786 22 күн бұрын

The NY Times holding off on talking about a laptop story that they haven't had time to properly investigate isn't single-handedly going to make people lose trust in institutions. People would just grab onto something else to claim is the reason they lost trust. And, going with a story before the journalists had time to check it out could lose people's trust in institutions in a more substantial way.

@mrsully6003 8 күн бұрын

Not sure why 75% of people in the comment section are unable to grasp this simple concept. Cheers.

@chriscox4936 Күн бұрын

How long did it take for the Times to "properly" investigate the story?

@PaulLadendorf 24 күн бұрын

@ 1:36:38 "If we have an FDA we can trust" 🤣🤣🤣

@govcorpwatch 24 күн бұрын

There is no actual "government" agency that can be "trusted." they are all aspects of the same "legal" fictional "Corporation pretending to be government" deception.

@seag1492 20 күн бұрын

What makes you claim you can't trust the FDA?

@HelenSurina-mv8ot 23 күн бұрын

Thx for the moral landscape

@Producerukoh 24 күн бұрын

The first Top Gun competition was won by the Tuskegee Airmen in 1949. For 46 years the official records showed that the winners "Unknown". We've had less qualified people in top positions for generations just because they were part of the majority.

@pamelafoley9815 23 күн бұрын

Change the tax laws and reform welfare programs break up all monopolies and lobbyist stop illegal immigration send all young Americans to a third world country what the documentary on education Waiting on Superman

@vincentyoung8472 23 күн бұрын

That’s not what’s happening today. Cool whataboutism story though.

@Producerukoh 23 күн бұрын

@@vincentyoung8472 Where is your proof that that's not what's happening today? Your father and grandfathers took opportunities that they were less qualified for than their black, asian, hispanic, etc...counterparts. And they did it happily because they were part of the demographic majority. It was ok if they did sub-par work because their friends would just back them up. To protect your fragile egos you have to continue repeating the lie that we are not equal. What black Americans need to do is completely ignore you and just continue progressing. It's us wanting to work with you that has been the problem all along.

@rogerbritus9378 10 күн бұрын

The official records did not show the winners as "Unknown' for 46 years". Instead, the victory of the Tuskegee Airmen was just not widely acknowledged or celebrated. In 1995, the U.S. Air Force officially recognized the 332nd Fighter Group's victory in the competition, rectifying the historical oversight.

@Producerukoh 10 күн бұрын

@@rogerbritus9378 I put a link here to a CBS Story that showed that the official records said "unknown", but KZfaq took that down. You're 100% wrong, but someone highlighted you reply. It's crazy how you all try to erase history.

@stdamonsbeard 24 күн бұрын

The meeting of the Ben Stiller look alikes.

@Wretchedrenegade 24 күн бұрын

Tom doesn't look him you complete fool

@InactiveNode 24 күн бұрын

Well, I can't unsee this now, thanks :P

@C_Melvyn_James 22 күн бұрын

Nailed it.

@robertwilliams-wd6cp 24 күн бұрын

On health, all I know is 7 years ago I was at death's door. While walking the halls of an unfamiliar hospital to visit my Mother - in -law who had been threw a sextuple by pass surgery. I was struck with chest pains and shortness of breath. After my own double stent procedure on my heart I started my own research. Call it going down a rabbit hole if you will but propaganda is everywhere, from use these cheep seed oils to cook your food in, to don't eat chicken eggs, butter vs margarine. Does anyone remember cigarette commercials with Dr. spokesperson pushing the healthy filtered better version. My health improved when I started thinking for myself instead of following health experts!

@humongous_shift 24 күн бұрын

Sam is wise in many areas, politics isn't one of them. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@robertwilliams-wd6cp 24 күн бұрын

@@humongous_shift Plus I think college educated people just think that the diploma makes them smarter than common sense does people that couldn't afford college.

@bryandraughn9830 24 күн бұрын

Yes, millions of people pretending to be health experts is a major problem.

@firtfringsfirst 24 күн бұрын

Awesome that you fixed yourself! Curious- Why no chicken eggs? What about pasture raised?

@robertwilliams-wd6cp 24 күн бұрын

@@firtfringsfirst The whole media, all of a sudden claimed, falsely, that cholesterol in eggs would accumulate in your arteries causing heart disease, far from the truth, eggs have almost a perfect balance of nutrients to sustain life.

@HelenSurina-mv8ot 24 күн бұрын

How is it that one can sanction the death of innocent persons?

@Malt454 24 күн бұрын

The same way that others sanction the rape, kidnapping and murder of innocent persons; just pretend that it isn't all part of the same package and carry on. When the US does it, it's just called "war" and people shrug and move on; when other countries do it, others just KNOW that they could do a better job.

@EarlyRiser71 23 күн бұрын

Like Oct 7?

@imacmill 21 күн бұрын

@@EarlyRiser71Or the killing of Palestinians by Israel prior to that?

@dietervmorgan 24 күн бұрын

Props for having an open conversation.

@domonicdavis2913 24 күн бұрын

The fact that Tom is discussing the homelessness problem while advertising a product that will cut the need for certain jobs is hilarious 😂

@walterbenjamin9681 24 күн бұрын

Trump's verbal violence is a path that leads to insults, then to threats and physical violence, as we can see with the "Proud Boys" militia. politics in a democratic country consists of making precise proposals and debating them with opponents. So insults and threats have no place. By criticizing and insulting judges and juries, Trump is attacking the foundations of democracy. the far right regularly attacks the rule of law, which it calls the "deep state". But without the rule of law, violence expresses itself. In Russia, you no longer have the rule of law, but 40 militias looting the country. For the moment, Trump has only one violent militia, the Proud Boys .... LAW AND ORDER IS NOW FAR FROM GOP ...

@MrBlister808 24 күн бұрын

Yeah, I caught that as well 😂

@marsmotion 24 күн бұрын

ublock origen...no ads and firefox or whatever browser

@Wildminecraftwolf 24 күн бұрын

Progress wait for no man, if your job can be replaced by a robot, why would you want to do that job? it just becomes busy work at that point, even if the robot hasnt been built, the sheer fact that it could, degrades the job. Its like if a farmer, instead of buying a combine harvester, paied 5x more just to hire hundreds of individuals for years to harvest and process the crops. Sure it would create new "jobs" but thoes jobs are redundant and the people working them know it. May as well use the combine harvester, and just pay thoes hundreds of people in the extra money you saved by not hiring them. Its about capital.

@brianmeen2158 24 күн бұрын

Many of you will discover that we are all hypocritical to some degree.. let me examine your life for a few minutes and I will find plenty of examples

@thomasomalley7619 24 күн бұрын

Very good analysis, taking the words out of mi mouth.

@RS-zp6hb 17 күн бұрын

Where is part 1? I can't find it anywhere, is there even a part 1?

@dmr6390 16 күн бұрын

It’s with Constantin Kisin and Sam both. I think he posted it 12 or so days earlier

@richardwysocki8300 24 күн бұрын

This discussion seems to approach our problems from the viewpoint our society is making bad choices. What if the consequences of our bad choices -- or choices made for us by those wielding power -- are intentional?

@observerone6727 24 күн бұрын

What if there is no KZfaq comment that could helpfully move the needle on any subject ? 😅

@julieterrell7921 24 күн бұрын

If freewill is off the table, all these conversations would need reframe!

@BarrySometimes 24 күн бұрын

Reframing? To be reframed? How so?

@Nirvana7734 18 күн бұрын

What a great conversation. I should totally be going to bed, but this is way too interesting.

@joelharvey 24 күн бұрын

Tom Bilyeu's tone sounds like he's constantly rehashing what was said in another conversation. It's so annoying.

@luisacardoso8275 24 күн бұрын

Irritating to watch sheesh 😫

@Wildminecraftwolf 24 күн бұрын

Because he is, he is referencing other conversations that they have both had many times with other people. No point starting from first principles every time.

@brianmeen2158 24 күн бұрын

So don’t watch then? Why do so many on here seem to hate watch and then complain afterwards?

@Dru517 24 күн бұрын

@@brianmeen2158that’s the culture. We’re robots now. Now the peasants have a voice and knowledge is no longer being hoarded. So people feel the need to speak out and give their opinion. Hate tweeting, hate texting etc. It’s toxic and it’s addictive.

@neurotransmi77Er 24 күн бұрын

🤣 funny how you put it

@gasfeefees6647 24 күн бұрын

Sam was great in There is something about Mary.

@palimo3653 24 күн бұрын

😂

@elenabreck8958 22 күн бұрын

Yes, Sam, we gotta pick our battles. Well said!

@Tombilyeu31 19 күн бұрын

@musicclasstube220 4 күн бұрын

Love Sam Harris and you did such a good job of letting him talk. Not many people are as articulate as him.

@samdg1234 2 күн бұрын

Sam without a doubt is articulate, but that doesn't prevent him from employing his eloquence in the service of sophistry.

@euphegenia 24 күн бұрын

“As we confront the urgent matters of systemic racism” lmao. So urgent.

@nixob1 22 күн бұрын

Kinda urgent when you consider you had a white supremist running the Country 3 and 1/2 years ago.

@bluecoffee8414 22 күн бұрын

Mhm 😂

@imacmill 21 күн бұрын

Urgent or not, the premise of 'confronting' it is laughable. Racism is not fixable, any more than religious minds are fixable.

@n0b0dyatall1 20 күн бұрын

There is no systemic racism.

@Jay-ft3xh 9 күн бұрын

Fox news did a number on this clown

@justins.5222 24 күн бұрын

Tom said he is conspiracy minded then went on to say he is being pushed that way by Sam’s argument. No dude you just want to be outraged about shit.

@big_red_machine3547 24 күн бұрын

Hey, he a businessman. Controversy means eyeballs $

@vincentyoung8472 23 күн бұрын

Conspiracy is outrage? Amazing 🤡

@ItsameAlex 23 күн бұрын

@big_red_machine3547 23 күн бұрын

@@ItsameAlex Ya, and I think that we should all just move on from the “race” crap already. I think it’s obvious that we will always subconsciously prefer our own “race” and nobody cares about that anymore. The west is great because we don’t care about different skin colour. It’s a strength and the topic is getting long in the tooth

@ianhamilton639 21 күн бұрын

no.. Sam says "it's ok for media, government, and institutions to lie to you.. you should be ok with that." And then Tom says" No, i don't like being lied to.. it leads to questions and conspiracies. You're perpetuating conspiracies by allowing these people to lie to us, then telling us we're to dumb to understand it". And then Sam tried to back his dumb thinking by making an advil analogy, to which point Tom has to stop him because it's so dumb..

@kennedymartinez6049 7 күн бұрын

Even if Sam doesn’t want to know the symptoms of said drug imagine if his doctor told he wasn’t allowed to tell Sam the symptoms even if he wanted. I’m sure that would freak him out just as Tom was trying to say even if the actual symptoms aren’t that bad in reality.

@skyFox42 20 күн бұрын

He doubled down on the laptop, lol. I thought you were spending too much time on it at first, I was wrong. Good pod.

@Ermz 24 күн бұрын

I've been conditioned to pre-emptively wince every time I see Sam Harris.

@800iq2 24 күн бұрын

Yeah he deserves that scorn. He is not a good example

@MichaelH1232 24 күн бұрын

Thats sounds about right. You have been conditioned. Many others have too. Kind of embarressing.

@Peter-yc2uh 24 күн бұрын

EXACTLY - many of you have been conditioned by folks like Rogan who are intellectually empty. Great guy, kills it in his podcast and MMA. But intellectually empty.

@BridgesOnBikes 24 күн бұрын

I understand that impulse, but if that is the case then you don’t have a broad enough understanding of Sam’s most useful and important work. Look into his views on the topic of mindfulness and try to understand that aspect of his character. It’s a far cry from much of the noise around a couple of his political opinions you may not necessarily agree on. And for me, it’s been life changing.

@800iq2 24 күн бұрын

@@Peter-yc2uh ironic

@NicholasLucas-td9cb 24 күн бұрын

I think both Tom and Sam represented thier respective viewpoints well. To which, I think the real issue at hand becomes apparent. Institutional trust vs personal intuition. Both with thier drawbacks. As institutions have grown in power their corruption has become more damaging and more pubic. Just think, the Federal Reserve, social media, intelligence agencies, health orgainizations, they have not existed to this extent ever in the past, and thier influences are only increasing. They are unelected, unaccountable, and subvert democracy as thier desires, which are just as open to corruption as any, influence policy more than the peoples elected officials. They become de facto government without the checks and balances, and have rightfully caused a reactional red flag amoung many. Relying on intuitions though, as Sam highlights, is not possible for many issues and is fraught with emotional biases and leads to conspiratorial thinking. This can open the door to public manipulation and perhaps a backdoor to the same ending. Institutions vs intuitions will be greater at odds until a better solution can be trustfully implemented.

@Malt454 24 күн бұрын

"They are unelected, unaccountable, and subvert democracy as their desires" - sounds like a lot of KZfaq; we've met the enemy, and it is us.

@beingjohn392 21 күн бұрын

Well said.

@1979ce 24 күн бұрын

A good plan won't break a system. A bad plan would break a system.

@gwills9337 23 күн бұрын

a bad system has to be broken by a good plan.

@dlynn101 7 күн бұрын

I think what people really need to examine closely is the Poverty. Industrial. Complex. It's been said that the opposite of poverty isn't wealth, it's justice. But there are entities that profit from poverty and therefor are invested in its existence. So when we think of black people being born into poverty, be careful to resist seeing it as the result of some past tense events, but rather an ongoing, perpetual effort to sustain this condition through other Industrial Complexes, including the Entertainment Industrial Complex, who sells poor role models to black children, who has always insisted on portraying black women as single mothers, since the 60s and 70s. The Criminal Justice System itself has become an industrial complex. This is why the LAPD has a massive fleet of helicopters it over-deploys and disproportionately floods black neighborhoods with noise pollution. Many believe the persistent, unwarranted helicopter noise poses its own mental health threat. Someone asked me, why is that everyone else does better than blacks? I said, "answer this: Why are North Koreans starving and South Koreans thriving? Two questions, same answer."

@Jade.123 23 күн бұрын

Amazing interview ❤

@johnnywlittle 18 күн бұрын

I just love Sam. He walks his talk and is so balanced and rational in his messages. Not that I always agree w/him but I do find him a sort of grounding rod in a world of lightning storms. That and I’m a big fan of his app and how it’s helped my life.

@SaviorMoney-777 14 күн бұрын

Nothing rational about him.

@jessedameron7985 24 күн бұрын

Wow! Tom brings a ton of awesome brain teasers to the table. Every time, Sam Harris responds like a chess champion with a bunch of steps thought out.

@brianmeen2158 24 күн бұрын

I’ll never get tired of listening to Sam Harris speak on pretty much any issue

@chrisintoronto7137 21 күн бұрын

@@brianmeen2158 Neither will Sam.

@ItsameAlex 24 күн бұрын

cool, I will watch this later

@TastelessOpinion 19 күн бұрын

Great interviewer. Solid toolkit. You earned a new subscriber.

@ZM-dm3jg 24 күн бұрын

Sam Harris has made a core issue of being opposed to everything authoritarian / totalitarian. So it is shocking that he would be pro- persecution of political opponents.

@johnbuckner2828 24 күн бұрын

I’m not sure how true that is in practice. Didn’t he kind of lean toward a greater good approach to Covid vaccination ? And I’m pretty sure he wants his speech police in public forums to curb the amount of “ misinformation.” He seems to have threads of technocratic temptations woven into his fabric, but I’m not sure how the scales weigh out for him in balancing his utilitarianism and principles of negative rights.

@Peter-yc2uh 24 күн бұрын

ABSOLUTE BULLSHXT. This not that at all. And your obviously too dense to get that.

@Readabookfoofoo 24 күн бұрын

He’s not anti-authoritarian. Listen to him. He’s a globalist. Do you understand the basic theory of globalism? It’s an authoritarian race to the bottom.

@vincentyoung8472 24 күн бұрын

@@johnbuckner2828 correct, what an awful take. “Greater good” 😂 🤡

@libraryofcod6098 24 күн бұрын

He literally said in his first substack post that it was a very bad idea and clearly politically motivated. Get a grip fella

@CaneBTC 23 күн бұрын

Tom trying to explain to an elite that people don't like being manipulated by the elite.

@microst99 24 күн бұрын

@16:00 brilliant point

@dj_laundry_list 24 күн бұрын

This is an excellent interview

@Sassykk 24 күн бұрын

Better questions this time Tom 👍🏻

@lhurst9550 24 күн бұрын

1:55 The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions.

@bellakrinkle9381 24 күн бұрын

No, stupidity leads the path to nowhere.

@amarissimus29 24 күн бұрын

@@bellakrinkle9381 You have to have a certain baseline intelligence to engage in the level of doublethink that is now the norm. Normal stupid people just laugh and walk away. Embracing the contradictions and encouraging others to self-immolate to assuage your projected guilt is a dumpster-chute from the penthouse that the ego transforms into yellow-brick road. Not stupid. Insane.

@KennyEvans-eg1lw 24 күн бұрын

Actually its ''The road to hell is paved with good intentions'' close but not quite lol

@mattanderson6672 17 күн бұрын

Thanks, that was awesome

@DANJEDI 24 күн бұрын

Good show 👍

@paddydiddles4415 22 күн бұрын

1:34:10 Sam changes the subject into talking about nocebo. Tom raised the concern of Sam seemingly dismissing the democratic process as ‘a liability’ - this is a different subject to ‘trusting the experts’. Sam filibusters off point for quite a while, and this successfully steered Tom off that into talking about ‘trusting the experts’ again

@Tombilyeu31 19 күн бұрын

@liamwright281 24 күн бұрын

It’s allll by designnnnnnnnn

@marsmotion 24 күн бұрын

bingo

@VigiliusHaufniensis 23 күн бұрын

What is by design?

@timstevens3025 2 күн бұрын

That doesn't make any sense without some frame of reference. What is "all?" What design? Who's doing the designing? Maybe you just have special knowledge you're keeping from everyone else. Except "bingo" dude. He knows, too. Not sharing, though. Smart.

@klassicjammer7322 11 күн бұрын

I empathize with some of Sam’s rationale cause people are truly stupid, but like Tom summarizing at the end about Sam’s worldview about trusting institutions moreso than not, us constantly getting lied to has to inspire skepticism cause it’s not all based in scientific fact and a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. I think we’ve seen the limits of Sam Harris and that’s not a bad thing. Glad I found Tom’s podcast.

@benfaubion 10 күн бұрын

Great interview, thank you.. I've always seen the problem as "the loudest activists are bullying others who have better ideas into silence, so those better ideas don't get a shot because there's too much fear and pride in human nature".

@HelenSurina-mv8ot 24 күн бұрын

A billionaire buys a building, rents are affordable, the homeless are no more. A billionaire has a factory, hires the newly housed and the rent gets paid. And so on...

@15walkeen 23 күн бұрын

Lol, people don't become billionaires by being altruistic. Get off your knees.

@gwills9337 23 күн бұрын

seems like the billionaire is just benefiting from the labor and the fact that people are willing to work for worthless paper.

@AberrantArt 24 күн бұрын

This guy is a proponent for "you'll own nothing and be happy"

@TheNomadPhotographer 24 күн бұрын

Oh really. Where’d you get that idea from?

@henryburton6529 24 күн бұрын

Literally no one's a proponent of that - not even the WEF Try to get another source of news someone lied to you

@AberrantArt 24 күн бұрын

@@TheNomadPhotographer not sure if you're sarcastic or not? Are you familiar with WEF?

@mikebasketball11 24 күн бұрын

@@AberrantArtWEF?

@aaronpannell6401 24 күн бұрын

@@AberrantArtI don't think Sam was invited to the WEF.

@helenmary9416 23 күн бұрын

thank you both, as a long time married female the world is a mine field.

@jqyhlmnp 18 күн бұрын

Bro said “Folie à deux”

@1979ce 24 күн бұрын

We pay taxes so the state and country can make the environment safe and viable. If the government isn't helping the company then why should the company pay?

@govcorpwatch 24 күн бұрын

No. actually. Grace Commission Report says that not one nickel of taxpayer money goes to fund the US government as presumed. It's their own documents.

@M.Linoge 23 күн бұрын

So the roads, the legal system, the infrastructure, foreign diplomacy - including the army -"isn't helping"?

@Censeo 21 күн бұрын

@@M.Linogepeople are gonna pretend police and roads etc come out of thin air. Also thinking that no environmental regulation will make competing companies regulate themselves for good will or for popularity among customers and only profit would somehow always have enough care for the environment. People won't think deeper cause that might make them change their minds and that hurts the ego.

@grumpyoldman6503 14 күн бұрын

@@Censeoexactly. libertarian mind rot in action.

@Dan16673 10 күн бұрын

@@Censeoall fails

@c.p.haslop2500 24 күн бұрын

I support building affordable housing in Sam's neighborhood

@ketovorecpa242 24 күн бұрын

It's not that people believe you have the right to die on a sidewalk, it's that funding was radically cut from mental health institutions and programs in the 80s and people needing help were left with no where to go.

@vincentyoung8472 23 күн бұрын

People don’t have that right in civilized society. Just as they don’t have the right to loiter, but liberalism is a mental disorder so here we are, watching California’s cities degrade.

@b-tec 23 күн бұрын

"we simply don't know what the perfect social policy is to erratic inequality" Here's a thought, we know it's not Fractional Reserve Banking which is at the foundation of wealth inequality so how about we at least stop doing that???

@gwills9337 23 күн бұрын

big fact