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Nov 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
When we interviewed Sam Harris I disagreed very strongly with what he said about the Hunter Biden laptop. That's why we pushed back even though I actually wanted to move on. I found the way he saw Trump & COVID difficult to comprehend.

But I am sorry that Sam left Twitter...
A part of me wishes we had never done that interview. This isn't what we do on @triggerpod. We don't make people look bad. I left that room thinking I disagree with Sam very strongly on two major issues. I didn't leave that room thinking Sam was a terrible person who deserved
...to be hounded on Twitter and eventually off it. And yet that's what's happened.

I am not stupid. I understand the vitriol. He showed pro-Trump people (and people like me who don't like Trump but don't believe that our dislike for him means he must be treated unfairly or...
...that his opponents must be allowed to get away without answering major valid questions) - he showed them the face of Trump Derangement Syndrome they always suspected was there but didn't quite have evidence of. I get it. I do.

But I am sorry Sam left. Not only because he...
... undoubtedly contributed to my personal journey of becoming the man I am and doing the (amazing) things I get to do for a living. But because I know that he did that for a lot of people. I know them, personally.

His sober take on BLM when he was one of the few critics...
...from the left that people could hear as the world was seemingly on fire... That was important.

His willingness to challenge Islamism when everyone was terrified to - that was big.

Much as I may disagree with him, I will miss him here. I believe we all will.

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Nov 18
I wish the people who said they were going to leave Britain if Brexit happened, go to Canada if Trump got elected and that they would leave Twitter if Elon took over were true to their word.

Having these emotionally incontinent people here...
...just forces us to have endless unproductive conversations with people who haven't been trained to think properly and process everything through emotion.

I say this as someone who voted Remain. I was upset about the result. For like at least 10 seconds. Then I moved on...
The hysterical reaction to the result was absolutely horrifying to me. And think how much energy, money & air time was spent attempting to relitigate Brexit and Trump. Our entire world could have been infinitely better if we hadn't wasted 6 years having a breakdown. Emotional...
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Oct 27
Putin Speech: "America Has Nothing to Offer the World Except Domination"

Putin just gave another speech. I translated his last major speech because it's time people in the West understood what's happening - too many still think the war in Ukraine is about Ukraine. Image
As before he states his real motivations with a speech that is entirely about the West.
Important to note that he is speaking to the Valdai Discussion Club, which has many delegates from the rest of the world. In many ways he is speaking to them.
The TL:DR of it is that he is making a pitch to the nations of the world which sounds something like this:
For too long America has been taking advantage of you and we are fighting back - let’s work together for a multipolar world.
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Oct 25
This is an interesting discussion because I don't support a mass transfer of wealth to people who already have it. But "obscene" wealth, and I'd be curious what that means exactly (where is the line between acceptable wealth and obscene wealth?), has existed in every society...
...since the dawn of humanity. I know it's comforting to think that it's the product of "neoliberal policy" but it seems to me to be a product of hierarchical systems and the self-reinforcing cycles of wealth creation (money makes money).
Unless you're advocating for wealth confiscation, what mechanism exists that would have prevented Rishi Sunak from having "obscene wealth"? I grew up under communism which practiced wealth confiscation with gleeful abandon and we still had people who were "obscenely" wealthy.
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Oct 25
Rishi as PM has revealed the visceral hatred of wealthy people in Britain that has always puzzled me. I am not wealthy. I once slept in a park for weeks because I couldn't afford rent. I also really don't like Rishi because of his policies. But I just don't get it.
I don't know many super rich people but the ones I do aren't "worse" than anyone else I know. In fact, they're often very interesting people who are super rich because they are super successful in their field.

Why is this bad?
I've occasionally met people who are the beneficiaries of intergenerational privilege. It is "unfair" that they have opportunities other people don't but life is unfair and always will be. Unless you do away with the concept of private property, wealth...
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Oct 5
Putin's partial mobilisation is turning out to be a higher risk move than anyone anticipated, me included. 🧵

Even pro-Russian bloggers are widely sharing endless clips like this in which soldiers complain about:

- not being assigned to a unit
- not being paid
- having to buy food with their own money
- being kept *for a week* on trains that get sent from station to station and catching COVID from each other as a result
- being issued rusty AKs (in storage since the 70/80s)

At the same time they have been issued LIVE AMMUNITION 🙈
This significant for a number of reasons.

In terms of the war:

1) It slows down arrival and dramatically reduces both morale and overall combat effectiveness of Russian reinforcements in Ukraine.

2. It is driving up evasion of the call-up from the rest of the public.
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Oct 5
For years, any questioning, ANY questioning, of transgender ideology made you a complete pariah in comedy, literature and all other creative arts. You all know the names of the people who paid the price for speaking up about it.

And now we see:
- the charity responsible for pushing this ideology being investigated and dropping a board member because of his somewhat controversial pro-nonce position
- the clinic which encouraged and facilitated transitions closed and sued by thousands of former patients
- male rapists in female prisons
- males like Eddie Izzard attempting to get on all-female shortlists
- a wave of maimed children who regret their transitions

Tell me, are we still "phobes"? "Hateful"? Are we still the backward ones because we...
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