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Greg says something in the full episode, toward the end, that seems innocuous, but it's actually quite dangerous. He speaks of Trump as just some kind of anomaly, just some aberration, which we are stumped by, and just don't know what to do with or about. We just don't even know how to conceptualize him. But that's not true. It is a blindness to discernment of evil. There is a "trump" in every family, at least one. The stats are something like 1 in 6 people is a "trump." And perhaps it's not at his level of severity, but the number of victims of narcissistic abuse suggest it might be just as severe. We have a serious cultural problem of medicalizing and intellectualizing evil, as it manifests in human beings, and we keep trying to figure it out, to explain it away, and to deny that it exists. Now, we see that it can't be explained away. And now perhaps we might look back even if not at religious doctrines which are replete with warnings about the "trumps," but even just really good Russian literature (Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol, etc.), which painted portraits of "trumps" in almost every novel.

Great discussion

I like Sam Harris but from the first half of this I can't help but think he totally missed the ball on this one. I agree with what he is saying when it applies - but it seems he is generalizing all campus protests to be made up only of students with too much privilege and no understanding that they are being antisemitic. It totally misses the point of what many peaceful protests and other students are trying to get across....and pro-israel groups have started violence at these protests like at UCLA. There are bad actors on both sides of these protests

Sam, you are steadily losing relevance in the intellectual podcasting space, and frankly I feel it’s for two reasons: Audio only podcasts Paywall podcasts (even if you can request it free) I think you’d be better off monetizing this podcast in a more traditional way. Your perspective is very important in this moment, I feel. I don’t want you and your podcast to fade from the conversation.

The outrage now because the jews are being attacked by the same group whos ideology Sam has fueled for years prior on straight white men. Tough when your iwn creation bites you

So many people don’t know this or don’t care to believe it… idiots educated by f***ing tick tock marching around the Western world is an embarrassment to us all!!

China is backing these protests to avoid being demonized for what they've done to Uyghurs.

Sam. What are you talking about. It doesn't make sense to protest Russia on an American campus. They aren't an ally.

The media, not just some jerk with a nice camera, but the BBC, CBC, New York Times, Washington Post, all focus on and Gaza and the palestinians with bias and end up being the voice of ham-ass. A hospital gets bombed and now 500 innocent women and children were SLAUGHTERED by Israel. It never got retractions when Israel had to produce proof that it was innocent, as guilty was the default. The truth is that muslims everywhere will always side with other muslims. It is the fact that Islam won't allow a infidel to win over a muslim. The fact that there are Muslim people fighting with the IDF is the greatest victory of logic and reason over blind faith.

Can't believe I used to think Sam Harris was smart. What a moron.

A drop of sanity in an ocean of madness. Thank you Sam.

I was a fan of Sam Harris until I watch this stupid video! I am totally disappointed!

Sam put this amount of vigar to pointing out the hypocritical and genocidal language and behavior of anti Palestine protests, point out how powerful the Jewish lobby's are on both Republicans and Democrats (which in itself is cause for concern) point out the language used IN ISRAEL and their actions that ACTUALLY have a real world impact where as you love to dwell on the theoretical of Palestinians and aligned protesters. I beg you to point out hypocrisy on your side not so you can be pro Palestine (I sure as hell ain't) but so you can see that Israel and their stooges in the US are no friends/allies either

You’ve always had a doppelgänger saying stupid things… Gaylord Focker

224 just happens ( united states of America adds up to = 224 = 8...same as the fake eclipse date....all satanic black magic spells..problem is 99 percent of the ppl are literally brain washable with number spells. Biden amd all leaders to this and have for 1000s of yrs....Why 8? The spell is ( eight ) bc 8th letter in hebrew H turn H on its side is a capital letter EYE why EYE bc is 5+25+5 = 35 is 8......

I sympathize with the vaxed people who realize the mistake they have made and are living out the remainder of their lives as positively as possible. The arrogant and disrespectful vaxers though can piss off for all i care.

Disliked and reported this garbage video as misinformation 😑

Students protest because its fun. Thats mostly it

Easy. We're not funding Putin's massacre. Huge numbers of protesters are Jewish. Is Sam Harris being paid by Netanyahou? What's going on with him?

Thank you for clarifying issues

145 journalists killed in Gaza…..that’s more than WW2 and Vietnam combined…..there is a case to be made that Israel has been more than reckless.

Sam, since intentions are important to you, and you're so convinced that Israel wants a 2-states solution and peace, why are you not open to talking to people who are convinced of the opposite? Why do you keep bringing on people who agree with you?

Sam, you can't imagine how people can get that bloodthirsty because you were never in their shoes.

Joseph Goebbels knew that if you keep repeating a lie, the lie morphs into a truth.

The numbers come from the Hell Ministry of Gaza and has been copied from almost all the news channels and alternative news. I don’t believe anything that these channels put out.

So many people on the left have seemingly replaced all their principles with anti-colonial theory. It's a sad state of affairs...

I love Sam, but he must realise this is crazy reasoning. There's no protests about Ukraine because it's obvious the establishment backs Ukraine. I find the protests wonky, but they're happening because protesters think the establishment backs Israel. It's that simple.

Imagine that, an atheist that hates Trump 😂😂. God truly is the best comedian. Trump is a soldier for truth and good and that is why the world seemingly hates him.

Listening to this, I’ve decided…Sam Harris is as he describes, an A-h0.le.

Sam, I’d like to hear your discussion on Biden versus Trump. Because a Trump presidency is untenable. On the other hand, Biden has effectively kicked Israel under the bus. I know you’re pro Israel. Any thoughts?

Sam Harris is describing what any person elected to the office of POTUS could theoretically do! But, rather than point it out...let's tell people that only Trump can destroy democracy. Real intelligent, logical, and free from political bias. I must applaud you Sam Harris...for you have found the flaw in our current system of government. We are all very lucky that nobody else...in the history of the United States...figured this out. It is unimaginable to think that the FBI and DOJ could be politicized.

This ahole knows what AI will ban and what it won’t. Greg is a passive aggressive turd

I really think that you need to debate with more Europeans on the subjet, you're point of view is a caricature. Not sure that you have more "free speech" in fine in US than in US. You just have the "luck" to let crazy guy like Alex Jones, where we have laws to restricted that. But please make the comparaison about gender, wokism and so on. I'm prettu sure that Europe is more free on those topics.

Mr. Harris pls educate yourself about the last at least 75 years so you don’t talk such nonsense. I have no respect for you anymore, the dislike of religion has changed you to a war monger and a lover of Zionists. Now I know all you have stood up to now is just lies otherwise you would treat a Jewish Zionist state the same as an Islamic state, with no statehood and rights. Please read the Jewish historians like Ilan Peppe and many others who have researched the horrendous calamity the Zionist Jews brought on the Palestine. Not all Jews are Zionist hence the huge numbers who are against the murderous actions of Israel. This is not a war, it is so lopsided if it wasn’t so sad would be funny. Natanyahu helped Hamas build those tunnels and created Hamas to weaken the PLO. Please educate yourself before you become Naranyahu’s loudspeaker. Pls learn the history. Lots of books are available, do yourself a favour and read about the history from mid 1800.

Sam just keeps saying “algorithm”. Its not magic, its just that people click on certain things.

Yes, yes, and yes. Thank you, again, Sam.

Trump broke Sam’s brain

Day 235 of waiting for Sam Harris to talk to someone who knows the history well and can represent the Palestinian side. Let me make a few suggestions: -Rashid Khalidi -Omar Baddar -Marc Lamont Hill -Scott Horton -Dave Smith -Cenk Uyger Will we ever get a conversation that’s fair and gives an honest representation of both sides? This is sad to me that we haven’t had that on this podcast.

Free speech isnt a problem on social media sites. The recommendation system that curates content is.

Trump 2024!

Having Alex Jones back on X gave me the opportunity to hear him explain himself uninterrupted. Now I know why he believed Sandy Hook was a hoax. The man "never" watches TV news. Who would have thought watching TV news was actually a good thing.

Harris is an unhinged bloodthirsty psycho.

The IDF is bombing and killing hundreds at once, they don’t need to drag anybody. Find out what happens to prisoners in Israeli prisons. They have lost limbs, raped handcuffed with diapers. Unfortunately Sam Harris is very ignorant and blinded by his distaste for religion and specially Islam.

I am at the beginning of this and I’m surprised the way Spencer talks about a child crying and feels so sad yet so many Palestinians have been killed and we haven’t hear such sorrow, these two are so biased. How dare you not realize what Israel has done to the 20:53 Palestinians. The jubilation is due to 75 years of captivity and for once for a moment they have the power to do what has been done to them for all these years. The IDF has committed much worse acts, and it’s all covered up. Very biased discussion.

I agree with much of what you say. But 1 the heart of the conflict is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine initially by Jewish terrorists from Nov 47 with British complicity (see Ilan Pappe's well researched book). 2 Israel can be as nasty as Hammas in celebrating their victims, see eg Brother Andrew's account of the dying Palestinian teenager strapped to the hood of an IDF jeep and driven around Gaza ('Light Force p284/5.) Israel is an apartheid state and not a full democracy. There is no rule of law for Palestinians. I know, I founded a business business there.

That was quite the endorsement by Sam

Forget what you think is the exaggerated, what is the munber for you. How much civilian death is satisfactory for you to say that what is happening is a war crime?

This is DUMB and NONSENSE. Drugs are BAD.

Really disingenuous to say that Muslim countries have made Jews their "eternal enemies" for thousands of years. Almost all the conflict between Jews and Muslims today stems from the creation of Israel in 1948, which the Muslim world (correctly) views as western, Christian-backed and anti-Muslim/anti-Arab. I mean, if the Jews needed a state of their own (and I believe they did), how come it wasn't carved out of Germany? Why were the Palestinians expected to leave? And not just leave, but accept their fate out of fairness to the Jews? It's such a European colonial mindset that we should not be viewing favorably in 2024. Sam veers into misinformation when he starts talking about history that he clearly doesn't understand. And what's worse is that one need not even go there, since Israel already exists and isn't going anywhere, and the points about Hamas/Oct. 7th don't rely on it at all. It needlessly undermines his whole argument when he says things that are this ignorant.

The Muslim immigration we had to start with was "toss off the veil and be free" but that very quickly becomes huge numbers setting up mini Pakistans (who then begin oppressing your veil-less cohort). You must say ZERO or you will end up like us in the UK.