Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Where Are the Grown-Ups? (Episode #383)" video.

  1. Every new Elon Musk Tweet is worse than the last. Something screwy with that guy.
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  2. Lex is semi-spineless. He has a reputation for asking questions that are borderline tough, but then as you say leaving it with whoever he's talking to say whatever they want. It is the only way someone doing what he does can survive I think. I mean look at Don Lemon's interview with Elon Musk and how vindicative Elon got, cancelling his contract. There is something seriously wrong with Eon Musk, but people are afraid of him because he is so rich. They also seem to think he is right because he is rich beyond belief.
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  3.  @Timzart7  I though Carlson's inteview with Putin was a good thing. I think Putin is a very smart guy, but the US does not want Russia economically connected to the West because as they build up capital they have a huge unexploited country full of smart people and raw materials and will threaten the US hegemony. While I understand, or think I understand Putin's POV, a developed Russia would dominate and could take over Europe economically in a way they will never do militarily, and it is stupid to even think it's possible. America is not perfect, and we can play hardball tougher than any other country when we need to, but critical as I might be about my country, I don't want to see any other country take global leadership and economic power away from us. We seem to be doing a pretty good job of doing that ourselves. I thought Tucker's romp though the Russian grocery store was interesting, and wondered by he got so much crap for that. But then he goes and does the weirdest things, like not only interviewing this pro-Nazi but calling him a leading thinker? Why? All this war and competition in the world right now is exactly analogous to two people fighting in a burning building. We are heading towards oblivion and it is clear our plutocrat leaders are not worrying in the least about the rest of us at all. These podcasting folks annoy me in a way, even the best as I consider Sam Harris and Ezra Klein, two who make and effort to be intelligent and considerate. I had no idea that Sam Felt Ezra has slammed him. It's all in how we all manipulate each other by pretending we are with one brand or way of thinking, and we have to make compromises and pay our dues to Caesar in order to be taken seriously, and we cannot stray too far from the mob, just as our social behavior has to toe the line and not be too different from others. But it means are are all phonies and liars all our lives. I honestly do not think humans are natively intelligent. Our intelligence is in our works, and our books, science, theories and mythology and the external structures we make an subscribe to, but behaviorally we are pretty much all hypocrites out for ourselves and the hierachies leading up to ourself.
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  4. Nice comment. What else is the governor going to do? The solution once these people are in place is to try to make it work. My understanding is that the city called for immigrants to come live there. I think Sam is entirely correct feeling sympathy for Americans who have grown up here with an wide understanding of what American society it, and then someone from above decides to throw their lives into the blender with total disregard. Foreign groups are different in nature. I recall here in CA when the Vietnamese boat people immigrated to this area. There were a lot of them and they spoke poor English, and people made the same cracks about them eating dogs, etc. But the Vietnamese were poor, hardworking, exceptionally smart, and social, gentle friendly people who just want to get along. When I compare that to a little later when people from Iran immigrated here they were mostly right-wing rich people, with a lot of money and many of them had an attitude and they did not melt into society as much. Of course there is huge overlap and you can't judge people, but sometimes it seems like you can, or you can at least perceive a problem and discuss it. I don't see anything wrong with that. For instance Muslims in Europe ... OMG!
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  5. I was surprised that Sam went into talking about the differences in intelligence between different ethnic groups. I mean, for the purposes of AI, we cannot even define intelligence, and there are a lot of variables, maybe more than we even know or can take account of. But Sam is right that is not something that should be off-limits to discuss, but when you discuss with Elon Musk's opinion on what a discussion is - that doesn't work, and they do that purposefully to jam up the national conversation so nothing intelligent can be modeled. I may not agree with Sam on everything, but I appreciate that he models a measured, calm, objective and civil way to discuss things - at least about 99.9% of the time. MAGA never tries to model civility - they are out to destroy it.
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  6. Yeah, really, I cannot believe Sam is the outcast. When I heard him talking about Ezra Klein, who I've been following since Biden's bad debate and I think he's a pretty good thinker - it was hard to believe Ezra attacked Sam, that doesn't seem right.
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  7. I've been saying this for ages. It is not racist to be concerned about social cohesion, which was already getting pretty nasty thanks to Republicans back in the day of Newt Gingrich. We have a lot of very scary marginal people in our country, and we need a new patriotic morality or something that we can agree on and when people depart from that they need to be threat assessed.
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  8.  @randyevermore9323  You should listen to this conversation with Mark Cuban and what he has to say about Elon "Mark Cuban deals NIGHTMARE blow to Trump"
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  9. Sam, are you getting burnt out? Frequent use of the AH-word today. ;-) As usual I really enjoy your take on things. Want more! Thanks.
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  10. An aspect of Trump that I find under reported, or not reported at all is the radical change he wants to force. Business, at least most non-global-monopoly businesses hate radical change like this, and given the chaos he will bring to prices and markets at an already time of chaos - I don't see how business leaders are not shouting out against him. Except that perhaps they feel they will be retaliated against if he wins. This is some very bad stuff going on, and even if Trump is not elected the space left by his exit will lay the opening for people even worse.
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  11. I have not had any of the experiences on Twitter that Sam Harris has in terms of violent imagery. But I am very careful as to who to follow, and very quick to block and quick to unfollow too. If I am looking at my feed and see some ugly or stupid Tweets, I just block them. I don't have time for all the bad people online.
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  12. I've never seen anything like that on Twitter. I had a Twitter acct for a few years, but i have not been on Twitter until Oct. 7th where it was the best place to see what was going in in Israel - as disgusting as that was.
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