Welcome To The Cult Factory: A Conversation with Tristan Harris (Episode  

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

@@joshknightfall that made my day.. I gotta see that movie now ... ahh The Dude must abide :)

Maybe if others weren’t so arrogant and take giant dump on others we wouldn’t have this problem. Pretty sure this clown shows is mostly in the big cities in any western country not in poor countries or out side the big cities.

@Donald Piniach There is no lack of batshit craziness among the right. Go read and engage in "alternative" media and it's all just batshit crazy antisemitism, conspiracy theories, Q-bullshit, homophobia, "Women's rights have destroyed Western civilization", etc. etc.

You're right, Atheism has been harmful to social cohesion. It should be banned from the internet.

I specifically try to game my algorithms to show things like this. Feels good knowing I’m using their tricks against them. I do see all sides.. and intentionally so.. but when it comes to this, I’m actually signed on.

The algorithm is polarizing. Polarizing as in two poles. It needs to maintain two opposing sides that it can pit against each other to drum up clicks. Its just decided to make you an anti sjw to act as the foil for sjws. And it made the sjws for the same reason to act upon you.

@@jasondoolin6476 I know what you mean that you "Game your algorithms." But, How do you do it?

Robert Garrett I mean this is complicated to discuss in a RU-vid comment but let’s just say I don’t get as much Fox/CNN as most people. Because I don’t ask for it. If that makes sense.

The one thing I notice is that the algorithm seems dispassionate; its seems to reflect the nature of the human interacting with it. Which is to say if you are being ever directed towards more heterodox thinkers and influencers, in particular those at least 20 years older than social media, then its a good sign you might not have the type of mind that merrily dives down confirmation bias rabbits holes suggested by the "If you liked this you might also like" algorithm of certain.... platforms ;)

Love Rogan, but now that he’s bent the knee to big tech, I don’t think his podcast is going to be what it was.

Joe Rogan gets duped by Spotify 🤦‍♂️ Then he moves to Austin! 🤷‍♂️ Austin is the 'LA' of Texas...Austin is a Democrat run DUMP!

I'm so sick of these "x person needs to get on Rogan" comments. There are other, better interviewers. Not every bright, interesting person needs to be on Rogan.

_ 3nekos I’m so sick of these “I’m so sick of these.....” people. He has his preference, you have yours.

@@pest174 I mention Rogan mostly because of the reach he has. How capable he is as an interviewer is almost immaterial, as I think the important thing is to showcase interesting people with interesting things to say to as large an audience as possible. And last time I checked, Joe Rogan still had the most popular podcast in the world.

It has hurt. 100%

But we're not really connected. Our social media is a production of who we want the world to see, not who we really are. We don't communicate normally anymore. Most communication is non verbal. If you don't have the opportunity to sit down and visit we are missing all the subtle nuances of person to person communication. We don't even treat each others like humans anymore. Social media has not made us more human.

When I tell people I don't have a mobile phone or use social media, they usually seem envious.

This issue is actually very deeply philosophical imo.. the tech and social media problems are manifestations of fundamental maladaptations of our moral philosophies. Altruism and Religions have turned the majority of social collectivists into narcissists that faithfully worship their leaders and brutally condemn their enemies. Being connected via social media will not help us if we are misled against each other and taught to deny the truth, and reason, for the sake of blind faith and trust in those that do not prove their claims. Jordan Peterson is a good example of a seemingly intelligent mind that is totally overcome with faith-based mysticism and altruistic servitude to other’s, religion and the State etc. Ayn Rand and other Objectivists are necessary to learn from if we hope to eventually have full individual rights for all before the law; rather than wait for our lying leaders to bestow us with the rights that we know are inherently inalienable.

Hurt. I used to be on social media constantly all day, was alcoholic, neurotic, out of shape, and all together self destructive. I quit all social media a little over two years ago and the effects have been profound. I barely drink, am in amazing shape, quit smoking and other drugs, started reading and studying and have developed passionate interests in a plethora of intellectual topics, and my mental health is at a level I never thought possible. Social media is destroying our society and creating a generation of pathologically resentful people, we are likely going to walk through very dark times and it is the combination of social media as well as mental conditioning brought on through mainstream media and academia that is to blame. But all is not lost, society is weak because we’ve had it good, people will strengthen as we’re forced to endure.

You can even watch the whole thing here on YT.

@@Christopher-md7tf Yes, in fact, look up any Documentary by Adam Curtis, he has several follow up docs to Century of Self.

All of Adam Curtis's work is worth checking out.

Love Adam Curtis! I always say to others they have to watch The century of the self. And if you want to know who are behind social engineering, I can recommend watching I am fishhead. Watch both and you can predict the future! No joke, sad but true.

Is it nostalgic about theocracy or something though?

But introverts participate in social media too, probably to a greater degree. Social media is actually not very social.

It's like Covid was working for you.

@@johntavers6878 True, I'm proof. Maybe it's us introverts who broke social media by finally having a platform for social dissent in the comfort of our homes.

@@SalamaSond that's not such a bad theory. Bullies getting bullied by the chickens coming home to roost🤣 Those of us who tend to be contrarians probably aren't helping either! (AKA Trolls)

Very soon, people will read a particular news report from the New York Times (or any other news) with the same title but the news story will be written differently from your what your neighbor reads, although the title of the news story has the same title... A.I. will write the story based solely on YOU, and A.I. will know how to write any news story to manipulate you... Mass misinformation will soon confuse everyone and turn one against another deliberately....

You are suggesting that people do some research, actual research rather than go on visual stimuli.

This is the explanation I give to people that don’t understand what is going on. The majority of people literally are spoon fed their “beliefs” based on a meme, 30 second video or a one sentence post. I do find an ultimate irony just along in Sam Harris’ prologue is his disdain for Trump and how plenty of the blame is on Trump. While being fairly neutral on Trump myself, there is no doubt that he one of the most misquoted, caricatured, wrongly blamed and honestly flat out lied about person that I can think of. Simple unbiased research results in 30 seconds show most the things about what he says or does is false. He gets dragged through the mud for good things or right decisions that he does (i.e. called a racist for cutting off travel to and from China for COVID or being nominated for 2 and now maybe a 3rd Nobel peace prize with even people that nominate him say they don’t care for him but you cannot ignore how big of accomplishments they are). He tends to be correct about many of the things that people drag him through the mud for talking about (mail in voting being the most current one where you can see articles and people taking pictures of all and talking about ballots they’re getting from other people on top of articles of ballots not being counted or lost in primaries). Then on top of there’s people like Maxine Waters for just one little example of a rally saying “If you see these people here tell them they’re not welcome here or anywhere.” That is a widespread statement on the left in different words by many of their leaders shown by many people in the streets currently. Yet Trump is the big problem that needs to take blame. The man can be off putting, but to be in denial that others have as much if not more of the blame for literal heavily divisive rhetoric shows that intellegencia have these same problems while even knowing that they are problems.

@@amorfati4927 Sam Harris worries that Trump will get re-elected at least to some extent because he is so unfairly treated by the media. I have said that if I had lived in cave for the few years leading up to the "Trump years", and if I then listened to the media's profound negativity concerning Trump, I would think that Trump must be a guy who constantly shouts racial slurs and goes out at night and spray paints swastikas on neighborhood garage doors. Still, I want Trump to go. But I am not thrilled by the prospect of Biden.

Then one has to get into understanding the robustness of the data acquisition, model construction, and model testing process. Too exhausting for a typical individual to master if he/she wants to cover the entirety of life's complexity. I am more concerned as to how we restore higher level of integrity in ourselves, our experts and institutions, and eventually, more public trust.

As others have said, there's simply too much data, too many "simple facts" (and extremely complex facts) for ordinary people to sort through them all in order to have a directly well informed opinion on the myriad topics of relevance to modern civilization. Reliance on experts sorting through the sea of data on their subject matter are unfortunately necessary, which is why intelligent people like Sam Harris are often so worried about things like institutional stability, public trust of experts, expert competence, and as in this video, the information ecosystem we are forced to inhabit out of pragmatic necessity.

Gave me hope. You should definitely read The Age Of Survalliance Capitalism. The author was in that documentary, the black haired eldery woman with glasses. Sorry I can't remember her name. Great book that she'd spent the best part of a decade researching. Scared the absolute shit out of me.

I've listened to the most recent episode in its entirety. Would you say it's still worth watching the documentary?

I have thought about watching that documentary. I imagine I will soon.

@@jacobthompson8433 Will do!

Not really, they didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. Plus, despite a weak thinly veiled attempt, it was heavily slanted to the left: for instance there was no comment about censorship of conservative voices, all of the protest videos that demonstrated social division were of the the handful of instances that the right was out protesting the lock down as opposed to the left burning the country down since May and there were several clips showing cnn as some kind of source of authority. The only thing they did that was good or brave was bring Johnathan Haidt on.

The education system has its flaws for sure but the internet is so accepted and everywhere at all times, it infiltrates life in school and uni.

@@matthewgaffney1955 The indoctrination didn't start in the internet though. To me it also seems to be the case that universities and academia play a vital role in the polarisation and indoctrination of young Americans. The internet and Social Media just make things worse.

And all the misinformation the Internet traffics wouldn't be as big of a problem if people were taught how to properly research things in school. How to cite/identify credible sources is usually just presented as a means to get a passing grade, if at all. Like most classroom material, students usually forget about it once they've gotten that grade, because they weren't taught to apply it to the rest of life.

You cant open your mind without being indoctrinated first... Imho the westren education model failed at both...

If people are taught to think for themselves then Facebook's evil algorithms won't have power over them. Don't hear this very often though do we?

Guess I beat you then, cause I never loaded it! ;-) But seriously, there is a lot of corrosive really hateful stuff as in videos out there. Sickening, our country and society is falling apart and the worst people ever and coming in to fill the vacuum.

I downloaded it for research purposes and because I’m a guy I seen a girl do the wap dance (what most men and teen boys like) as she shakes her big butt it grabs your attention. The next video was the same and so on. Another video was degrading men height and penis size and the comments were awful. Same thing the video was degrading men and now women.little kids and teens are in this app. But I started to clean the app up and watch puppy’s, kittens and Sam Francisco photos for almost an hour and when I exist the app, that was mostly what I was getting.

Please get the word out, that we are being played, by China. It’s serious.

Did it EVER? Did you ever read the AIM messages from Zuck back in his IP theft days and the flippancy he treated private consumer data with? His intentions were exploitation FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

Jeff Caplan I think what I mean is- for the first few years users used social media from more of a curiosity and (I think) wholesome perspective: We used it to learn, interact, discover, and make the world smaller. Nowadays it’s all about snark, starting and winning arguments and acting hysterical haha.

Well, at least send them this. If they're intrigued enough to listen to this entire block, they'll move on to finding the rest. I think I will watch the Netflix movie, The Social Dilemma, they discuss. This alone was eye opening~!! (even two years since you made your comment, lol).

Why not create an app that runs constant random Google searches (in the background)? One search every 30 seconds, all day long. Just open the app and the app begins to run automatically in the background, interfacing with google all freaking day (and night!). ONE simple app like this would render almost ALL of Google's data completely useless if everybody used it!!!! Over night, David would strike down Goliath with one simple app!!!!

@Larry Myers When people still used PCs and laptops instead of mobile phones. Smart phones hit a critical point of mass consumer adoption in 2012. This is when the 'singularity' happened and why the Mayan calendar restarted then... The world/age we knew has already ended and we're just now starting to come to grips with that. Collective AGI or bust now, baby!!! 😁

@Larry Myers The wars between the memes/idealogical thought bubbles is like that what happened back during the days of the primordial soup which birthed RNA from the cacophony of chemicals or when the oceans teamed with competitive life until it birthed a new form of life (mammals) or the warring between different tribes of primates ~500k years ago until a single tribe/species eventually won out. Same thing is just now starting to happen and eventually we'll have a theocratic society which bends to the will of our collective consciousness after we're done with this period of conflict. I don't expect the conflict to last too long this time... But that's not necessarily a good thing, either...

Sam Harris has addressed this issue before.... it's probably not going to happen. I'm okay with it. I LIKE that he provides his guests with the right to edit and remove and that wouldn't go well in a video situation.

luv2 dancesalsa thanks for the response. If he’s already addressed it, then I’m ok with it. And you’re probably right, I’m sure there are many benefits to a non video format that I’m unaware of.

Compelling... I'm going to have to go to the actual podcast now and finish this. Thank you.

Canadian Deplorable You should send him an email. He probably doesn’t read the comment section 😁

Amazon Ethicist

Wow

Tv programme scheduler ... is the same.

Wtf

I agree nobody is held accountable, especially the news media. We don't need more gatekeepers. We need to consume less internet.

@@justineking5643 how is that ever going to happen? Regulation is key! That's why the USA is so f*cked up: they hate any kind of regulation!

Brilliant. Well said .

I didn't get that from their discussion. Rather that unless everyone has the same information when it comes to certain things, bad things happen.

While it is still very difficult for people to come together even when they have the same information it becomes impossible for people to come together when they have different information, and it is very important that society does come to a consensus on difficult political topics.Without truth, conversation, and ultimately consensus there is no democracy and everything falls apart. I have an acquaintance that tells me that democracy is on the way out and that leaders need to, "rise above the unwashed masses". I somewhat agree with his diagnosis that democracy is falling apart, but I disagree with his explanation for why it is happening. I belive that social media and misinformation are breaking down social cohesion and that break down is what is destabilizing democracy, whereas my acquaintance belives that the collapse of democracy is inevitable and that coporate autocracies are the future. My acquaintance works at facebook.

I dont think thats what they're implying, and in fact it's evidently not the case from what we can see of the past. What they're suggesting is that belief systems are becoming more and more aggregated and therefore more antagonistic towards each other, because we no longer have a shared reality of information. We instead have bubble realities that encourage further separation and aggregation of bubble realities.

There is an assumption that if we are fed different information we will come to different conclusions. That seems reasonable and well evidenced in real life. We know that people can see the same events and come to different conclusions, even if they are standing next to each other and gathering their own information.

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Same. There's sadly a real difference in quality between what people like you and I search for and enjoy and care about, and what many other people search for and enjoy and care about...

More and more people are poor AF and cannot afford 10-day mindfulness retreats. Mindfulness is pretty expensive. There are no private solutions to systemic problems...

@@boschblue it doesn't have to be expensive. There are plenty of good teachers, books, and guided sessions that aren't expensive. Ten days isn't always necassary.

@@boschblue Many vippassana retreats are free for those who can't afford them and the only fee you pay is the recommended cost which you pay forward for the next person.

If I didn't want unpacking I'd tune in to CNN or Fox.

Such as?

Which biases?

Semper Fortis oh you must be talking about the Palestinian Territories, like Gaza, as Hamas included the genocide of Jews in its founding charter. Well spotted

@@adamhonestyanddecency5054 lets start with "everybody is her to get 'Murica"

@@fruvitabeograd9157 What are you talking about? They speak of this as a global phenomenon and issue, and America will inevitably face its own problems that are both internally and externally related to this, as with any other country. They never claimed "America" is under most threat from this, or anything remotely close to it. But they live in America, so naturally they will draw examples and talk about it from that perspective as well. Seriously, listen to the subtext of what they're actually discussing. This discussion is held for the sake of all human beings on planet Earth. Grow up already.

I predict you'll watch the doc and think that it is sensationalized and childish. Not once does it acknowledge that some people think for themselves and therefore don't become victims of the evil algorithms.

Me too. 😊

He is missed.

I still smile when I hear his voice mischievously squeezing that "fine bookstores" bit into responses to talk show questions.

Ryleigh S: I hear you. The big 2 are Truth and Love

I hear you too. There's a paradox about honesty though. From the ground floor it seems like a great idea. From the penthouse it looks like folly. Both have a point, and we're all caught in the elevator.

Why not create an app that runs constant random Google searches (in the background)? One search every 30 seconds, all day long. Just open the app and the app begins to run automatically in the background, interfacing with google all freaking day (and night!). ONE simple app like this would render almost ALL of Google's data completely useless if everybody used it!!!! Over night, David would strike down Goliath with one simple app!!!!

@@nicktrice4921 Really great comment. 'Man is only a bridge between the animal and the infinite.' -Nietzsche

That's the universe trying to tell you something.

Why not create an app that runs constant random Google searches (in the background)? One search every 30 seconds, all day long. Just open the app and the app begins to run automatically in the background, interfacing with google all freaking day (and night!). ONE simple app like this would render almost ALL of Google's data completely useless if everybody used it!!!! Over night, David would strike down Goliath with one simple app!!!!

You're just impossible to please. Or more likely, you're engaging with the platforms in a way that makes you more opaque.

I wouldn't complain. That's a good thing.

The smartest folks were those like Jesus or Buddha who saw the "real" conspiracy/maya that entraps us all. 😉 Gnostics and Zorastrianism tell an interesting story about a cosmic conspiracy theory that can be interpreted at a psychological or a sociological level.

Right, my favorite part was "imagine having the most amazing technology in history and instead of using it to solve problems we use it to manipulate ppl"..... "oh and also conspiracy theorists are SO dumb".. Ugh. Hahahaha the irony is so impeccable 😂😂😂😂😂

@@Mrs.Criticless people like Sam worship academia and the upper "intelligentsia" because they've been indoctrinated to believe that everything can be "explained away" by incompetence, coincidence or just outright dismissal. This allows them the ability to deflect or look the other way whenever clear and observable evidence points to the fact that there are strings being pulled. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

@@bandofpranksters 100%.

mind blown, dude

Like Trump isn't deranged? TDS is well-called for.

big takeaway

AMEN!

"Demoncratization"???

When you teach a child not to steal, you're ethically steering that child. So many people in the comments are taking that one line and jumping to extreme conclusions, which hilariously and tragically proves the point that you yourselves are in desperate need of being ethically steered... or maybe just emotionally enlightened, I don't know honestly!

@Mark Black Sorry Mark, here it is again: Umm, we do not want to be “ethically steered” by Google, Tristan. We like the democratization of media away from force-fed media propaganda controlled by a handful of interests and an agenda that is not ours. We do not think this is “the breakdown of truth” but quite the opposite. You call yourself an ethicist but you are a nicely polished and marketed apologist for a totalitarian technocracy, however much you dress it up with references to teen depression and dopamine. The pair of you are transparent in your contempt for views that you do not share, and your desire to police this.

​@@matthewgaffney1955 That's right Matthew, you don't. You, like Tristan and Sam, probably think that people that don't agree with you are children and need to be corrected, and that social media have a "responsibility" to police debate. Neither is true.

Don't hold your breath. Thinking for yourself doesn't give you that warm fuzzy that tribal group identity does.

Steve Smith good point. 🤔

Momma Llama: I admit I am optimistic. "All is well and all shall be well"...

Sam Harris is far from being 'woke'. Sounds like you might be in an echo chamber you're not aware of.

I've heard there's a Google Chrome extension that turns off the recommended videos feed on RU-vid. You might be interested in trying that, since the only videos you'll find are ones you intentionally search for; i.e. a music playlist.

RU-vid is the only app I really care about because I watch it for self help and spirituality. I don't watch anything political, and I don't use twitter, reddit, or anything else. I only wish there were another way to update friends and family besides using Facebook because it's the most politically charged place of all.

The far left would be people like Charlie Manson. The extremist Right would be people like Joey Gibson.

Who would have thought that capturing all possible political perspectives on a 1-dimensional line might not be a perfectly accurate model? ;) . It depends how you define left and right. If authority is right and liberty is left, then they're far-right. If freedom is right and central control is left, then they're far-left. If left is right and left is right, then they're both and neither. If English dishes are deemed food, they could be a banana sandwich. Just saying, you can get anywhere if you have "alternative definitions", and they have a lot of them.

@@sorsocksfake Think of the political quadrant: Top left, authoritarian left. Bottom left, libertarian left. Top right, authoritarian right. Bottom right, authoritarian right. Where do the SJWs/woke people fit on this quadrant? They are all over the place. They do not fit in the traditional left, authoritarian or libertarian.

Michael Black was it deliberate or a mistake naming the top and bottom right as authoritarian?

@@daveedwards8811 A mistake.

It's not a paywall.

Beautifully articulated.

Realistically I think people as a whole are too stupid to not let this kill us horribly. But if we don't try to raise awareness, it morphs from a probability to a certainty, and the latter is worse.

furyofbongos: "Data sent across the Internet is called a message. Before a message is sent, it is first split in many fragments called packets. These packets are sent independently of each other. The typical maximum packet size is between 1000 and 3000 characters. The Internet Protocol specifies how messages should be packetized."

You sound like a fool in the present.

Best argument you win💪🤣

The thing is, right now the counter culture is being conservative and opposing the left wing anarcho-Marxists that have infiltrated mainstream media and corporate culture.

wait... are you saying we don't have drugs now? doh!

Why not create an app that runs constant random Google searches (in the background)? One search every 30 seconds, all day long. Just open the app and the app begins to run automatically in the background, interfacing with google all freaking day (and night!). ONE simple app like this would render almost ALL of Google's data completely useless if everybody used it!!!! Over night, David would strike down Goliath with one simple app!!!!

@@SteveSmith-fh6br lmao you sound like you’ve been algorithm’d into using a bunch of buzzwords. Yeah those conservatives sure are “counter culture” with their desperate desire for preservation of old bullshit

Why? He seems to me to be another Deepak Chopra type but im not well versed in his work

Nah he's not so bad. I'd like to listen to Sam and him talking.

Yes! ^.^

@@joshlasky8138 "but I'm not well versed in his work" ~ why do you call him a "Deepak Chopra type" then? If you haven't actually listened to him for some time, you can't possibly make that assessment :D. I myself haven't listened much to Deepak Chopra but I know that he is known for using a kind of word salad with all kinds of mystical phrases that are supposed to sound profound when in reality they don't make much sense (I don't know if that's true but that is what he is known for). If you are referring to this when you say "Deepak Chopra type", I can assure you that none of that is true for Eckhart Tolle. Most of Tolles teachings are just purely about presence and the power of living in the now. He sometimes talks about what he believes the true meaning of Christianity is (and how it got perverted by Christians) but nothing that I would consider confusing for the sake of sounding hypothetically profound. Please, don't make these types of judgements if you haven't actually paid much attention to his work and philosophy. You only spread rumors unnecessarily and that is not really helpful.

@@ThatWhatIs393 if you read my comment, I said "It seems to me" which is implying that this what it seems only to me, but I possibly might be wrong because I'm not an authority or even familiar with his work even in a basic way homie.. i genuinely was asking why yall thought it would be a good conversation...

LOL

It's a good basic term used to indicate a request/desire to elaborate, describe, explain, illustrate something, which represents well the developmental nature of epistemology.

Yea the academic language can get annoying sometimes but small complaints lol.

Sam has TDS, as unlikely as that seems for someone as insightful and intelligent as he.

I also noticed that they favor news outlets that have been proven liars over "conspiracy" theories which - while not 100% accurate, have been proven to be largely TRUE according to contradicting journalism, FBI/DOJ investigations, etc. Also did you notice the defacto acceptance about Polar Bears as part of the GW narrative, while it has been revealed that there is NO problem with polar bear populations, as well as evidence that Sir Attenborough has lied about quite a few of the (other wise beautiful) Netflix documentaries? I like Sam, but he is not quite the information junky he should be to be properly commenting on this phenomena.

@@forrestpugh7575 Completely agree. I think it's wildly ironic, how they can articulate so well the trouble we're in, while actively misleading at the same time. If it wasn't so nauseating it would be fascinating.

@@Mrs.Criticless 100% agree. The documentary is well summarized the same way.

I'm a Pragmatist.

You think that's reality you're experiencing right now?

Josh Kerr you think that’s air you’re breathing now?

Very soon, people will read a particular news report from the New York Times (or any other news) with the same title but the news story will be written differently from your what your neighbor reads, although the title of the news story has the same title... A.I. will write the story based solely on YOU, and A.I. will know how to write any news story to manipulate you... Mass misinformation will soon confuse everyone and turn one against another deliberately....

Very soon, people will read a particular news report from the New York Times (or any other news) with the same title but the news story will be written differently from your what your neighbor reads, although the title of the news story has the same title... A.I. will write the story based solely on YOU, and A.I. will know how to write any news story to manipulate you... Mass misinformation will soon confuse everyone and turn one against another deliberately....

As is life in 2020

Dole Pole haha well I can’t attest to the accuracy of the latter claim, but I think the fact that cuties made it to Netflix shows that they’re not even attempting to conceal their attempts at social engineering at this point.

To be fair to Sam, he did mention Russia amplifying and creating blm content targeting minorities.

@@KingRyanoles What? That sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense. I wouldn't put it past Sam. He had on a woman awhile back who was heavily promoting the "Trump Russia Possible Collusion" narrative and was completely uncritical of her and didn't question her data whatsoever.

Did you miss the part where he says some of this falls on Trump and some on the left?

His previous podcast was literally called "The new religion of anti-racism". Perhaps it would be wise to check your own bias and prejudice first.

@@jaybee2530 thank you for the recommendation this is only the second podcast I've listened to.

Indeed. Would make a boring subject for a podcast though.

Sam's an outspoken critic of the far left, so what's your point?

I think Sam is misguided to put the bulk of the blame on Trump. The LEAST we can say about the far left is that they are equal partners in this.

@@apikecalledmike I would say that Trump is a product of the far left. If it weren't for their insanity, we probably would not have him as President. The problems that this country is currently facing are entirely the fault of years of the far left having free reign so much so that their ideologies have become mainstream. This started long before Trump. So yeah, trying to place the majority of the blame on him seems pretty out of touch and biased to me.

@@apikecalledmike the problem is not the far left becouse they were always extremist but the moderate left that let them take over and sam with the majority of his guests is part of that

@@arbencela2397 Yes, I recall a far left conspiracy theorist that Sam had on not too long ago and he was completely uncritical of her "Russian bots won the election" nonsense. It's gotten that bad.

No they have the correct information, every one else is stupid. They know better lol.

that1guy375 Thanks for proving my point. Everyone thinks they are right.

You're ignoring the possibility that there could be anyone outside of an echo chamber though. Identifying that there are in fact echo chambers and people who fall into them doesn't instantaneously place you in one of your own.

Matthew Gaffney except when you’re regurgitating the ideas of that echo chamber as truthful. That places you in that echo chamber.

Does anyone else watch Sam on double speed?