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eason that anybody could come up with is that we poke them, they poke us, and you can't let people poke you without poking back. And I'm thinking we've sort of run out of ideas now. You can always imagine okay Putin's really trying to build this empire and blah blah blah. Everybody's trying to build their empire I mean in the sense that every country is trying to get stronger. Would Putin care as…
← Previous segment →p that introduces cognitive dissonance in him he just changes the subject. So if you try and discuss it with these people one of the first things they do is they just jump out of the conversation and you know they'll say well he's a dictator so yeah they were even discussing this you know he's a dictator. There's just nothing to discuss. It's funny that anybody thinks that a dictator is still a good thing to say based on anything we've observed over the last few years.
Yeah so you did see — let me ask how far you got. Did you succeed in getting anybody to actually say the words on the page? That you know reading the president's quote that he condemned the neo-Nazis. Did you get them to actually read it? No and I think part of the reason that I can't get him to read it is some of them I've talked to him before about politics and because I'm a logical person I take things a step at a time and these people are not stupid and they can see where I'm going. Yeah they can see where they're being led and they just won't engage. They just absolutely refuse to engage in an intelligent conversation. So would you agree that the test was fascinating for you that you couldn't get somebody to read one sentence? They just literally won't do it right? No I guess I'll wait. I have to make one correction to that. Okay I did the same thing on Facebook where I posted I think the thing you originally had put up on Twitter and this guy was just adamant you know about what a horrible person Trump was and all this garbage. And so I posted this thing and naturally never heard another word in the thread. Just a completely killed the thread and nobody discussed it at all.
All right thank you. Thanks for that update. I'm gonna take another caller. It looks like somebody's on there. Thanks Tom. I've got a few more people on here. Let's do Anthony. Anthony can you hear me? I can hear you. Well okay. There's the fine
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people hoax. Well I did. I actually have a little AM radio show out here in North Carolina on the weekends and I did it for a show. And the interesting thing was the fact that like the last caller I don't think you can get too far into the funnel because either people are immediately just said you know what you're lying even though I read the quote to them. But what was really strange was as soon…
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