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Back to episode — Episode 2222 Scott Adams - Free Speech Was Nice While It Lasted. Bring Coffee

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of a product, it's not related to the headlines, has nothing to do with climate change, has nothing to do with race, has nothing to do with anything that we debate about every day. I've got a feeling that's pretty good. Probably pretty good. Meaning that they probably are real scientists who are doing something real and getting real results. Sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but they crawl toward…

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e literally looking at the science as we understand it and then doing a good job of interpreting it. No, I feel like everybody else was just, nah, climate change is real. Uh-uh, it snowed today. And he's just dismantling them through a much better process. All right, but he's only dismantling the agenda. Just the agenda.

I saw a tweet today because I was complaining about free speech as I often do. We'll talk about more of that. But Frank on Twitter, Frank Joppy I think he said, their free speech lives on the Second Amendment. No one is aware of it but the USA's Second Amendment is the knot that keeps it all together. To which I said no it doesn't. Are you kidding me? The Second Amendment probably does protect you from the worst kind of dictator taking over. I think that's true. And anybody who makes the stupid argument that guns don't work against nuclear weapons and helicopters doesn't really understand how the guns would be used because they wouldn't be used against the military. Duh, right? You know that's not how they would be used. They were just making it possible for anybody in charge to ever go outside again. And people in charge probably want to go outside sometime for the rest of their life. No, it would just be impossible to show your face anywhere in America if you were a dictator because we're just too strapped. Somebody would take you out.

So yeah, the Second Amendment is really good as one of the things that maybe helps us prevent the dictator takeover. But when it comes to freedom of speech you lost that a long time ago. Who has freedom of speech?

Let me give you the dumb argument before I give you the smart argument. Okay Dale, can you explain in your own words why we have total freedom of speech in America? Because you can go to your closet and say anything you want. Well that's true. I could go in my closet all by myself and say anything I wanted. But does that really seem to you like that's freedom of speech? Nobody says you get to go on a social media platform. I don't believe the Constitution mentioned your freedom of using the X platform. Yeah we all get that. We all get that. One hundred percent of us understand that. But in a practical sense if you don't have access to actually the tools of communicating you don't really have freedom in the way that other people do. In a practical sense but not a technical sense. Not a technical sense because you can go into your closet. You can say anything you want in the privacy of your own closet. Yeah but you know that's not really the free speech that anybody cared about. The only kind people cared about was the public stuff.

Well you can say anything you want on Twitter. Apparently there are anti-Semites and racists and everybody so what are you complaining about? You can say anything you want on there. Well yes but then the ADL will ban you whether you say anything bad or not if they just don't like it politically because there's essentially a tool of the Democrats and they're destroying free speech wherever they go by destroying the economic model of the people trying to enjoy the free speech. They're not in your closet. In Scott you can say anything you want in there. I feel like you're just avoiding my argument as opposed to responding to it. Do you see the fact that while technically free speech exists that in a practical sense it does not? Do you get that?

Was January 6th people had all the free speech they wanted? Yes you piece of shit they have all the free speech they want while they're in jail rotting for basically free speech crimes. You. Well you don't have to get so personal about it. Freedom of speech. And see so yeah we don't have freedom of speech. Are you kidding me? Does anybody think that we have freedom of speech in a practical sense?

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You know don't go all Dale on me. Oh well technically it doesn't mean. No I know that. I know it technically doesn't involve Twitter or X or whatever. Yeah all right. Well you know what I mean. All right so now the Second Amendment won't protect your freedom of speech because that's already largely gone. What you have is the freedom to run into a buzzsaw of economic destruction should you say som…

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