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#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Rise of America

The term woke has kind of been perverted. It just means like outrageously left wing, maybe even with socialist or Marxist undertones. I've been told many times that as a Jewish Argentinian immigrant to the United States, I actually don't qualify as oppressed enough because Jews are privileged now in the US and my family had just enough money to leave Argentina. So there's this kind of like oppression Olympics thing where I'm told you don't get to comment. And I think it's kind of like a strange imposition from someone kind of with a solution in search of a problem. We can find instances of where this exists on the left. But we're actually hurting our own movement with

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