Michael Malice

Going to the supermarket would be really annoying.

So I don't think most people suck, but I do think that in public discourse, there are lots of people who are dishonest about their agenda.

For example, I could be a...

someone who has promoting a certain ideology, but I'm in the payroll of a candidate or, you know, my think tank needs this to happen, or I'm being paid for someone, something like that.

So that sort of thing, I think happens all the time.

There's the line I have in the book, Upton Sinclair.

I forgot how he, he worded exactly, but it's very hard to convince someone of something if his payroll depends on him not being convinced of it.

Right.

So I think things like that are... The thing I'm really excited about with what Elon's doing with Twitter, and I'm just ecstatic about this, is to have the context now.

So you'll have a politician making a claim and they're going to word it in certain ways.

My favorite example is when people are like, if you look at the years 2002 to 2020, terrorism in America, it's like, did anything happen in 2001?

Is there a reason you just coincidentally started in 2002?

Things like that.

So...

When people are manipulating things to force an outcome that they want and to promote an idea that they want disingenuously, to have that underneath that in Twitter now, where the audience provides context, I think is something extremely useful.

And it's a great way to nip propaganda in the bud.

And propaganda pervades the entire political spectrum, of course.

I think the...

interesting thing about Lenin is he was a zealot.

and he was a visionary and he really kind of meant it.