Back to episode — Episode 1124 Scott Adams - Fake News, HOAXES, Science Denying, Magic Tricks, Things You Thought True
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italism we all die or we're conquered by China, et cetera. But the Antifa gets to say, oh capitalism? Who said capitalism? I said anti-fascist. I didn't even mention capitalism. What's capitalism got to do with it? But here's how you know that's the magic trick. Have you ever seen the regular news interview somebody from Antifa and ask them this question: Can you tell us, is there such a thing as…
← Previous segment →dination but they don't seem to have anybody who's the spokesperson. But still you could find people who would be willing to talk about it. So if we had a real news business they would call them on and they'd say, trying to understand anti-fascist. So I have one question. Could there ever be a capitalist system that is not fascist? And the answer is not really. Now they might try to finesse it by saying sure, sure, you know if you did everything right but you really can't build that system because it would remove incentives, human incentives, so it would fall apart. So the fact that this dog is not barking, meaning that the news business is not giving you any look, not an approximate one, not a glance, not anything about what does that mean to be anti-fascist, nothing, it's just not a topic, that tells you that the magic trick is working. Because as soon as they focused on it, it would fall apart.
All right. Do you remember some of the things that I said in the beginning of the coronavirus? I told you I thought vitamin D would be important and now studies seem to be validating that vitamin D might be not just important but like really, really important. It's unconfirmed but it's looking that way. And now there's a forthcoming study from 23andMe showing that your genetic code could affect how much the coronavirus affects you. So remember I told you early on, you know I've got a feeling there's a genetic correlation here and that if we knew what that genetic correlation was we could do way better in protecting ourselves because we'd know who needs to be protected. And now sure enough. So I say this because I always tell you that you should watch who is predicting well. So on day one practically I
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was saying look at genetics, look at vitamin D. And correct, correct. So you have to give me those check marks. That doesn't mean I'm right on everything and when I'm wrong you should point it out. And yeah, obesity and being African-American and you know a whole bunch of things that increase your risk. All right. Trump was in California yesterday talking to Gavin Newsom and people about the fore…
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