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The Intellectual Wild South - Eric Weinstein

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The Existential Risk of Donald Trump

I call Donald Trump potentially an existential risk and I've said that the American physics community handing over the nuclear secret store military to Donald Trump is a catastrophic failure. We are all suffering from a complete strange madness that nobody can quite explain, diagnose or understand. That madness allowed us to put up with let's say the weapons of mass destruction narrative about why the US needed to invade Iraq after we were apparently hit by Saudis and Egyptians based in Afghanistan. And so this was always terrifying and I also think that the assessment of Donald Trump is probably incorrect as well. It's a normy style assessment. He actually has a deep patriotism and he also has a deep desire to exploit his situation. The problem

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