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ribe what I just described other than saying they put feelings ahead of the law? And I believe that this is a common thing, not an uncommon thing, rather, that the court does sometimes say what's best for the world in our opinion. We're the judges so we get to be a little subjective. What's best for the world? And sometimes judges think what's best for the world is to ignore the law or ignore the…
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So here's some more advice that's exactly like that transporter example. Follow the science. Do we have — how much proof do you need? The people can't do that. You can't do that because you don't know which science is real. How about follow the facts? You can't do that because you don't know what facts are real.
Look at the fine people hoax. The people who believe the fine people hoax — here's the head scratcher and I know this might come as a shock — they're not dumber than you. They're not dumber than you. They just believe something sincerely that is not the case. So if they follow the facts, how's that going to work out? Because their fact is wrong. But they're not dumb. They don't have a lower IQ than you do on average. Not at all.
People cannot follow the evidence. They don't have that power. It just doesn't exist, right? All we have is confirmation bias and we know what team we're on so we know what the team argument is. We have opinions that get assigned to us by the media but there's nothing like people looking at data and evidence and applying their reason and coming to good decisions. You don't live in that world anymore than you live in the world where you can use your transporter to get out of the way of the bus.
So the advice to follow the science, as Joe Biden condescends to say because he's an idiot, because it just isn't a thing. It just isn't a thing. You can't do it or not do it. It's just not a thing.
All right, here's a concept which you should keep in mind. We talk about the fog of war with any big sto
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ry that just blows up and in the initial days everything you know about the story ends up being wrong, right? We call that the fog of war. When it's new and there's too many things happening all the information is wrong. You don't know anything until a few days have gone by. I would say that the election and allegations of election fraud were very much that fog of war situation. Very much a fog o…
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