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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Lex Fridman Podcast
Trump, I'm Not a Malevolent and Ultra Competent Malevolent Figure, but He's a Joker.
Trump is not a malevolent and ultra competent malevolent figure, but it's simply a jokester. And he just by creating the chaos revealed that it's all pretty fragile because you're a student history and there's a lot of people like Vladimir Lenin, Hitler who are exceptionally competent at controlling power. The pushback with Trump, he was doing none of that. He was creating, he's very good at creating drama, sometimes for humor's sake,. Sometimes for drama's sake, and simply revealed that our democracy is fragile. I mean, and he's he's more brave new world than 1984. This is what, you know, Eric Weinstein never stops badgering me about,
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