Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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that you can't even on your own conscience, you can't be in China. So if you're a public company and you care about what your customers and your stockholders are saying, you're going to be looking at this situation and you say, you know, it's sort of okay now, but it would be actually dumb to plan a move into China. Could we agree that if you were contemplating moving to China before, let's say a…

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ratic people who knew how to pick people. It's not an accident that she's this good. It's not an accident she was selected out of thousands of people because she can do this. This is special. You don't have to like it but it's special. And she can reproduce it over and over again. And every time she does, people say that's a stupid thing she's saying. How could she be so dumb? And then we go on and talk about all the things she wants us to focus on and she gets more powerful. And it's all because of our reaction to her.

All right, so that's all I have to say about her. And by the way, you know what the smartest thing... yeah, now never mind. I'm not going to say that. I changed my mind in mid-sentence. She did too.

All right, she's liked you. Now I'm looking at comments. I just make sure I haven't missed any topics that you want to talk about here. All right, there's just more bad AOC stuff. You know it's kind of, I don't know, it makes me sad that you can't appreciate the talent at the same time maybe you're hating her politics. I feel like you could hate her politics and still respect how effective she is. And feel like I feel like you can do that because I hate her politics. Yeah, there are things which she said, calling Republicans racist every five minutes, etc. There are things I absolutely deplore about her stated opinions. Who knows what she's thinking. But man, you can't say it's not effective.

We're on the Libra. So Facebook is producing its own crypto. That's the scariest thing in the world, isn't it? Is there anything you would want less than Facebook to control your money? That just feels like the worst idea in the world. I'm just sort of at a conceptual level. You don't even need to know the details. Yeah, just start with this. Hey, Facebook wants to control money. What? What? It's crazy.

So let me give you an update on my own shadow banning. I expect that this video will get demonetized almost certainly. So this video. So remember what I talked about here. So during this Periscope, was there any material on here that you think is controversial or should be demonetized? Anything? No, no. I in fact I came out in favor of the fine people, different fine people, but the good people who are talking about reparations. I'm on the side of the angels, right? There's nothing I said on here that should be demonetized. But I am calling out the fine people hoax again. It wasn't I didn't want to but it was in the news again. So this will be demonetized. Or it will be like my video yesterday where I did a test where instead of saying fine people hoax I just used the letters FPH and I wanted to see if their speech-to-text would pick that up

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and flag it by its initials. In theory it would not. And what happened instead of getting demonetized, that video was suppressed for the first several hours. So it was completely throttled back. It was sort of taken out of the recommended video queues. So if it doesn't get recommended to people it just is limited to the audience itself and that's much smaller. So I complained about it in public a…

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