Dave Smith
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Well, first of all, and this isn't even the most important point, but the American taxpayer is forced to pay for this stuff. But even if he wasn't, even if you didn't have to pay for it, if you're a human being, forget even an American, if you're a human being, you have a right to have an opinion on any issue you want to have an opinion on.
How is that different? Right. No, it's not. It's the same thing. It's the same kind of pathetic tactic where if you can't argue against someone's ideas, you just say, oh, you're a bad person. And that's why you have these ideas to begin with. It's a very... It's a very low-grade social psychology attempt to shame someone out of having the views that they have.
How is that different? Right. No, it's not. It's the same thing. It's the same kind of pathetic tactic where if you can't argue against someone's ideas, you just say, oh, you're a bad person. And that's why you have these ideas to begin with. It's a very... It's a very low-grade social psychology attempt to shame someone out of having the views that they have.
How is that different? Right. No, it's not. It's the same thing. It's the same kind of pathetic tactic where if you can't argue against someone's ideas, you just say, oh, you're a bad person. And that's why you have these ideas to begin with. It's a very... It's a very low-grade social psychology attempt to shame someone out of having the views that they have.
And yeah, it's exactly... It's what the woke did on everything, no matter what it was. I can't remember who coined the term, but a racist is anybody winning an argument against a progressive? Exactly. You know, that's it. And so he's doing the same thing. But then the other thing, which is really separate and secondary from that...
And yeah, it's exactly... It's what the woke did on everything, no matter what it was. I can't remember who coined the term, but a racist is anybody winning an argument against a progressive? Exactly. You know, that's it. And so he's doing the same thing. But then the other thing, which is really separate and secondary from that...
And yeah, it's exactly... It's what the woke did on everything, no matter what it was. I can't remember who coined the term, but a racist is anybody winning an argument against a progressive? Exactly. You know, that's it. And so he's doing the same thing. But then the other thing, which is really separate and secondary from that...
But the argument that Douglas Murray is making is that if I call out Paul Wolfowitz, or even, you know, more broadly speaking, if I call out the neoconservatives and how they hijacked American foreign policy and how they very much had Israel's interest in mind, which I get from reading the neoconservatives. I don't get this from reading critics of them. It's in their own words.
But the argument that Douglas Murray is making is that if I call out Paul Wolfowitz, or even, you know, more broadly speaking, if I call out the neoconservatives and how they hijacked American foreign policy and how they very much had Israel's interest in mind, which I get from reading the neoconservatives. I don't get this from reading critics of them. It's in their own words.
But the argument that Douglas Murray is making is that if I call out Paul Wolfowitz, or even, you know, more broadly speaking, if I call out the neoconservatives and how they hijacked American foreign policy and how they very much had Israel's interest in mind, which I get from reading the neoconservatives. I don't get this from reading critics of them. It's in their own words.
He's saying me calling that out is fertile ground for Jew hatred to rise? And it's like, no. What you're doing is fertile ground. I agree with that. What you're telling me, I'm not allowed to call out the deputy defense secretary because his last name is Jewish? That's actually what leads to a rise in people not liking Jews.
He's saying me calling that out is fertile ground for Jew hatred to rise? And it's like, no. What you're doing is fertile ground. I agree with that. What you're telling me, I'm not allowed to call out the deputy defense secretary because his last name is Jewish? That's actually what leads to a rise in people not liking Jews.
He's saying me calling that out is fertile ground for Jew hatred to rise? And it's like, no. What you're doing is fertile ground. I agree with that. What you're telling me, I'm not allowed to call out the deputy defense secretary because his last name is Jewish? That's actually what leads to a rise in people not liking Jews.
Well, it's also, you know, if you're if you're smearing people who and Daryl wasn't the only one, but if you're smearing people who's like names you don't know and who you admit you've never listened to any of their their work. Maybe don't put that right in the middle of an appeal to expertise.
Well, it's also, you know, if you're if you're smearing people who and Daryl wasn't the only one, but if you're smearing people who's like names you don't know and who you admit you've never listened to any of their their work. Maybe don't put that right in the middle of an appeal to expertise.
Well, it's also, you know, if you're if you're smearing people who and Daryl wasn't the only one, but if you're smearing people who's like names you don't know and who you admit you've never listened to any of their their work. Maybe don't put that right in the middle of an appeal to expertise.
Maybe have that in a different section than in the section where you're going, you really have to know what you're talking about in order to have an opinion on these things. And so that didn't work out very well. Dude, Daryl is an amazing guy. He is brilliant. His work is phenomenal. I know him personally, and he's, like, genuinely a great person. He's a humane man.
Maybe have that in a different section than in the section where you're going, you really have to know what you're talking about in order to have an opinion on these things. And so that didn't work out very well. Dude, Daryl is an amazing guy. He is brilliant. His work is phenomenal. I know him personally, and he's, like, genuinely a great person. He's a humane man.
Maybe have that in a different section than in the section where you're going, you really have to know what you're talking about in order to have an opinion on these things. And so that didn't work out very well. Dude, Daryl is an amazing guy. He is brilliant. His work is phenomenal. I know him personally, and he's, like, genuinely a great person. He's a humane man.
Yes, and it is something... It's a comment on our time and on our society that the guy who... Essentially, if you actually consume any of Daryl's work, as I have consumed a lot of it, basically... Daryl's whole kind of, his template, the way he operates is he's, there's basically only like a couple rules. And like, number one is he has to read everything that's available on the subject.