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“This goes to your conspiracy theory subject earlier when you have a little bit of knowledge about something, that history that no one's talking about, and there's only one group that is talking about it, and you have no alternative answers, you're going to be drawn to that group. So because issues about race, anti-Semitism, homophobia are so taboo in our culture, understandably there's good reasons if you start putting things like how old should you be to have sex with kids and just have regular conversations, eventually some people are going to start taking some positions you don't like. So some things have to be sanctified to some extent. They're the only ones talking about it. You're going to be drawn to that subculture.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Alright, was more born of blogs, and people had different blogs where they were posting what they call racial realism, scientific riches, scientific racism, so-called, and breaking down issues from a racialist perspective. So that wasn't 4chan is much more dynamic. It's a message board. It's very fluid. So it doesn't lend itself to these kind of in-depth analysis of ideas or history.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll give you one example. There was a video someone posted of a girl who put kittens in a bag and threw it in a river and they found out where she was within a day and got her like arrested. So yeah, they do take some things very seriously.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's not ideal. It's something that happens a lot. Now, 4chan's not really like Paul is their board with politics, but they will get into some, like, the people there are much more erudite than you'd think.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's not 4chan per se. One of the things that you will learn 4chan, which I think is very healthy, is if you have an idiosyncratic or unique worldview or focus on an aspect of history or culture, you'll be able to find like-minded people who you will engage with you and discuss it without being peremptorily dismissive.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, they would not. I don't know that any of them. Well, Worth is not a position, I'm not in a position to say worth. I would say that it is of use to be familiar with their arguments because to dismiss any school of thought, especially one that has historically gained leverage, especially one that has historically gained leverage in very dark ways, especially in America, in Europe, and other places, just to say, oh, they're racist. I don't need to think about them. It doesn't behoove you.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the alt-right is the subset of the new right, which feels that race, not racism, is the most or one of the most important socio-political issues.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's about a group of people who are united solely by their opposition to progressivism, who have little else in common, but who are all frequently caricatured and dismissed by the larger establishment media.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't do Yaron Brooks' voice in the book. I did all the different voices because he has Lisp and I didn't want to sound like I was making fun of him.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Funny, you said I think I can when they were working on my biography, Ego and Hubris, the title I had suggested was The Little Engine that Could But Shouldn't I think that's a great title, yeah.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know why there's evidence for my position, not proof. And this is, of course, data that is of little use, but it's of interest. A lot of times when you have an audience as big as mine and people come at you. Not only will people say the same thing, the same concept, they'll say the same concept in the same way. That is not a mind.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not at all. Not deep down, not surface. I'm not joking. I'm not being tongue-in-cheek. I'm not being cynical. I do not at all at all think they have this capacity.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here's another example if they had access to my face. Like a lot of times some people don't know who I am and they come at me calling me a Nazi anti-Semite, right? And I start talking about the Jews and just how terrible the Jews are. Now, all my audience. Then they would be like, okay, wait a minute, something's.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the more data. More easy it is to convey emotion and subtlety. Absolutely. If you only have literally black and white letters, it's going to be or whatever white and black if you have night mode. It's going to be a very different, it's much more limited information.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I give you another example someone came at me and they were like, they gave me a donation. People do this all the time. And they go, oh, like I started reading your books because of my wife. And now watch your shows together and keep up the good work. And I go, what does her boyfriend think? So that is an example of wit and love, because that person feels seen. I'm acknowledging them. I'm also making a joke at their expense. We know it's a joke. So I think you and I”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can be, but I'm saying that's not your core company. So I'm not saying you're bad at it, but I'm saying that's not where you go organically, especially with strangers.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't think that was an expression of, I honestly think, let's split hairs here because I think there's something of use here. I do think. That me being able to make her laugh about this year of hell she was in. Does create an element of love and connection between me and her.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, they're too happy being irreverent because to show that they don't care about anything. That's another form of cynicism, though.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I'll tell you what it was. You don't have to paraphrase it. I opened up. I say, you know, she's Jordan Peterson's dead. And as many people know, Jordan, sorry, he's her dad, yeah. She's had a long issue with substance addiction. And I said to her, you're most famous for being Jordan Peterson's daughter. Many people, he's changed so many lives around the world. And he's been such an enormous influence to me personally that I've started taking Benzodoazepines recreationally. And she's like, oh my God, Michael is so horrible.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here's another example of troll I was making jokes about Ron Paul. He just had a stroke, right? And someone came at me. And they're like, oh, blah, blah, blah. You know, you're ugly. I hope you have a stroke. I hope you're in the hospital. And I just go, I just did have a stroke on your mom's face. So they came at me. And now they got put in their place.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think it would connect with more people if they understood what she meant by it. Nathaniel Brandon, who was her heir until she kind of broke with him and he was the co-dedicate of Atlas Shrugged, said, no one will say Ayn Rand's views with a straight face. They won't say, I believe that my happiness matters and is important. This gives them happiness. Now, there's certain exceptions, but it gives you happiness. It's not for you. That's cool.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I use irony and not sarcasm. Here's an example when people, like you say something and someone reply to me, like, last I checked blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'll say them, I go, what do you think saying last I checked added to your point? You're giving me valuable information and data, but you are trained to believe that it has to be couched in this sneering. It doesn't. Just give me the information. This is useful information.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of all these musicians who were making their own perfumes, right? And this girl grabbed Princess's perfume. And before she even smelled it, she had the joke ready. She goes, oh, this smells almost as bad as his music lately. It's like, first of all, I'm sure the perfume's fine. And second of all, this is Prince. He's one of the all time greats, and you can't wait denigrate him. I want to be like, Brand, like, how dare you? As if this perfume in any way, in any way mitigates his amazing accomplishments and achievements. You horrible person. I do have some great Ayn Rand jokes, and he would not be happy about them.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Objectivism was always defined as Ayn Rand's writings plus the additional essays in her books. So if this was in part of those books, this counts as official objectivism, but they pretend otherwise. So that's another example. Plus, she was, and I bet you she was on the spectrum to some extent. I'm not joking. I'm not using that derisively. She was of the belief, and not inaccurately, because that humor is used to denigrate and humiliate. And she was thinking about the John Stewart type before there was a John Stewart. And a lot of times how I use mocking, but she was resentful correctly that a lot of times people who are great and accomplished, little nobodies will make a punchline just to bring them down and dispot her. Here's an example I just thought of. I remember in, I remember when it was, it must have been in the 90s. They had a segment of MTV.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's the kind of thing where I don't think he'd be. Another thing is Rand had an article on a woman president and she said a woman should never be president, right? Now when Rand says things that are too goofy for them, they say, oh, that's not objectivism. That's her personal preference. It's like she did not have these lines.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“However, if I'm sitting here telling you that I think this woman is a badass and she's amazing and she should be studied. But there's also these idiosyncrasies. They don't want to hear it because they, and I think it's very convenient for them because there's a lot of things she did that were, here's an example. Rand was very, very pro happiness and pro pleasure. She was very pro-sex, which is kind of surprising looking at her and how she talked and how strident she was. As a result of this, she never got her cats fixed to deny them the pleasure of orgasm. So her male cats are spraying up her entire house. Like that is... I mean, that's her putting her philosophy into practice, but it's still gross.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they so objectivism like any other philosophy has all these techniques to kind of hand wave away things you don't want to talk about and like pretend that so they talk about things like having no metaphysical significance, right? So what that means is like, well, what about this? I don't want to talk about it. It doesn't matter. Like it literally means advancy of philosophical terms. It doesn't matter. Or they will say correctly that it's very twisted in our culture that when we have heroes, we look for their flaws instead of looking for their virtues. That's 100% valid perspective.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What is really interesting about her, and this is something you'd appreciate personally, is when you read her essays, she'll have these weird asides. And like she was talking about art, and she'd be like, and this is why the U.S. should be the only country with nuclear weapons. And when you follow a brilliant mind making these seemingly disparate connections, it's something I find to be just absolutely inspiring and awesome and entertaining. I think there's lots of things about her that people like Yaron would make uncomfortable. What?”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I own her copy of the first printing of the fountain head, so that should tell you a little bit about how my affection for Miss Rand, how heavy that goes. Ayn Rand does not have all the answers, but she has all the questions. So if you study Rand, you are going to be forced to think through some very basic things and you're going to have your eyes open very, very heavily. She was not perfect. She never claimed to be perfect. She was asked on Donahue, is it true that according to your philosophy, you are a perfect being? She said, I never think of myself that way. And she said, but if you ask me, do I practice what I preach? The answer is yes resoundingly. She's a fascinating woman.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's possible to argue against, but she would say she's never met a good critic who can argue the facts that misrepresentation. And she's not entirely wrong. She's often caricatured because she is a very extreme personality and extreme worldview.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, it takes a lot of work, but I get a lot more of the profit. If it looks good on the shelf on Amazon, looks identical, so on and so forth, with the mainstream, the benefits and costs are pretty much obvious to most people. So the same thing. It's like you can either be an independent like Ross Perot, or you could be just seize one of the party apparatus, which the benefits are enormous there. But in terms of going third party, I don't know the libertarian party apparatus other than maybe some ballot access is really that efficacious. And then you're going to have a lot of baggage. Because if you hear independent Jesse Ventura, Ross Perot, you think of the person, now you have to define yourself and you have to defend the party. That's two bridges for most people.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not going to be able to promote you a lot and they don't get the distribution mainstream. I've done mainstream myself, right? With self, I don't have the cred, the respectability of a mainstream or the cachet.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What happens next? You know what I mean? So that kind of concept that there's any American culpability was America, you know, we were the good guys by definition we're not culpable to have people start thinking about what if there's another way. You know, what if we're not there and then they're not here and we're kind of doing a backdoor talking so different scenarios so the fact that he got so much more traction as a Republican, the fact that Donald Trump who came out of nowhere became not only the candidate but the president tells people it's like getting a book deal, right? You can either go there's three choices you can either self-publish mainstream publisher or independent publisher The independent publisher is the worst of all choices because you're not getting a big advance”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's also the idea that you can't even if you think America has a right to invade any country on earth as much as it wants and kill people as a consequence of war and blow up their buildings and destroy their country. You can't with a straight face not expect us to have consequences even if their consequence from evil people. Even if we're 100% the good guys and they're 100% the bad guys, those bad guys, some of them are still going to try to do something.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taboo a few years earlier. Many people were like, holy crap, this is amazing. Juliana was all offended. And Ron Paul's like,”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think libertarians tend to be, I think Jonathan Hyt in his book, in his research, he's a political scientist and he does a lot of things about how people come to their political conclusions and what factors force people to reach conclusions. And he found that libertarians are the least empathetic and most rationalistic of all the groups. And by that he means like they think in terms of logic as opposed to people's feelings. And that has positives and has negatives. And we have the A-B testing with Ron Paul. Ron Paul ran for president as a libertarian nominee. He was the nominee. He got pretty much nowhere in 1998. Then he ran as a return to Republican Party. He was a congressman for many years from Texas. He ran for the presidency in 2008 and 2012. And in 2008, he stood on stage with Ruda Giuliani and told him that they were here in 9-11 because we're over there, which would have been a shocking, horrifying.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People who are politically savvy, we're like, oh, okay, this is not a joke. This is really a crazy infringement of freedoms. And both parties are falling over each other to sign into law and the Orwellian name. How can you be against patriotism? You know what I mean? So I think for a lot of people, especially both civil libertarians on the left and a lot of conservatives who are constitutionalists are like, wait a minute, this isn't, I'm not comfortable with this. And I'm also not comfortable with how comfortable everyone in Washington is with it.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As of now, asset forfeiture steals more from people than burglaries. What people don't know about what asset forfeiture is. If the cops come to your house and they suspect you, you haven't been convicted of using your car or your house or whatever in terms of selling drugs, they can take whatever they want and then you have to sue to prove your innocence and get your property back. It's a complete violation of due process. People don't realize it's going on. It's a great way for the cops to increase their budgets and it's legal. And libertarians were the like the first big ones saying, guys, this is not American and this is crazy. And now increasingly people, conservatives and leftists are like, wait a minute, this is, even if you are selling drugs, like they take your house. What are you talking about? So I think those are some mechanisms that libertarianism, though, but not by name, has become far more popular.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Say yes, but are you sure you have to acknowledge that that's what you're meaning? And then a lot of people are like, wait a minute, there's got to be a third option than he has no consequences or he's imprisoned with a rapist. Like I'm not comfortable with either of these. And I think the other one is an increasing skepticism. This libertarians were on top of this first and the hard left of the police.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In terms of getting people educated about alternatives, then there's enormous use for that. That was his perspective. And I don't think that's an absurd perspective. But here's some libertarian ideas that have become extremely mainstream. War should be a last resort. This is something we're taught as kids and we all say, but for many years, it's been like... This was, you know, when you and I were kids, oh, it's crazy. It's only hippies want to smoke pot. Now it's like I was under grand jury. And the point out people make is, are you sure that this 16 year old who's selling wheat? Let's say selling, should his life be ruined? Should he be imprisoned with rapists and murderers? Like if you say yes.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can do the Chinese buffet and take a little from Kalame, a little from column B, and have an ideology that is coherent and consistent, an ideology of peace and non-aggression and things like that. The Libertarian Party takes its model from like the early progressive and populist parties from the early 20th century, which were not very effective in terms of getting people elected, but were extremely effective in terms of getting the two major parties to appropriate and adopt their ideas and implement them. And in Britain as well, the Liberal Party got destroyed and became taken over by Labor as the alternative party to the Tories and have those ideas basically become mainstreamed. So I think that, and the libertarian, my friend who passed away, Eric, I miss him dearly, was their webmaster. And his whole point is if you don't think of it in terms of party, in terms of getting people elected, but if you think of it as a party,”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Terrible. They hate America. They want to destroy it. Oh my god, those are horrible evil. This is the menu you want. And the libertarian party, to some extent, and just libertarians as a whole, said, you know,”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think libertarianism is a great idea. And I think there's many libertarian ideas that have become much more mainstream, which I'm very, very happy about. I remember there was an article in either New York or New Yorker magazine in the early 90s where they talked about the Cato Institute, which is a libertarian think tank, and they referred to the fact that Cato was against war and against regulation with a wacky consistency because they didn't know how to reconcile these two things. I don't remember where the two things were, but I remember that expression, wacky consistency. And it wasn't even, we're all taught, and this is very much before the internet, that there's two tribes. And if you're pro-life, you have to hate gays. And if you're for socialized medicine, that also means you have to be for, you know, free speech. It was just this very, and like, there's a whole menu and you got to sign into all of them. And that menu.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm being trolled. Okay, I'm being troll I'm being trolled. Okay. You remember on Friends, there was an episode where Chandler had to not make fun of people? Like, can you go one day, Chandler? And Phoebe starts telling him about this UFO she saw. And he's like, that's very interesting. Nice for you.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think it's interesting at all. And here's why I don't think it's interesting. Sweden has eight parties in its parliament, Iceland, populations like 150,000. They've got nine, I think it was. Czech Republic has nine. Britain has five. So the claim that two parties is the censorious of speech, but three, oh, now all of a sudden it makes no sense doesn't port to the data. Number one, number two was Donald Trump demonstrated that you can be basically a third party candidate, seize the machinery of existing party and appropriate to your own ends. As Bernie Sanders did. Bernie Sanders has never been a Democrat. Major credit to him's not easy to be elected as Senator as an independent. He's done it repeatedly. So these are two examples of ossified elites ripe for the picking. So to have a third party makes no real sense.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, he's very unique as a personality. But if you look at his record and his first name is rhetoric, you can say, is not centrist at all. But in terms of how he governs the budgeting, I mean, it's been very moderate. It certainly hasn't been like draconian budget cuts. The Supreme Court, you could say, okay, he's hard right. Immigration, you could say in certain capacities he's hard right. But in terms of pro-life, what has he done there in terms of, you know, so it's in many other aspects, he's been very much this kind of Me Too Republican. But certainly the rhetoric, it's very hard to make him the case that he's a centrist.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's undeniable. In fact, during the campaign, some activists started yelling at him at a town hall, not yelling, just saying, hey, we need open borders. Joe Biden says, I'm not for open borders. Go vote for Trump and literally turn his back on the man. And this is during the primaries where it would behoove you to try to appeal to the base.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Joe Biden had the crime bill. Joe Biden voted for Republican Supreme Court justices. Joe Biden voted for a balanced budget. Joe Biden voted for Bush's war. And I'm sure probably I haven't looked this up, the Patriot Act. If you want a centrist, you have Joe Biden.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I'm pleading to how you approach data. If someone is saying the mean is accurate, that only mean that, I mean, the mean could be anywhere. It's a function of what's around it. That mean is true.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it's also, then it becomes less of I need a miracle to be like, oh, this is really manageable. And it's absurd to think it's impossible.”
2020-10-02 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source