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Michael Malice

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

But like,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

why are you starving all these people?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Like, what are you gaining out of it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

That doesn't make sense to them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And because it doesn't make sense, there's kind of like, well, it's probably more of the story that I'm hearing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And a lot of times there's not, it's just like evil for the sake of power.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And yeah,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

we don't really have that certainly anywhere near that scale and never have um certainly you know since since america uh has been a thing i mean it's it's it's and the fact that this is like the 30s you know what i mean this isn't that long ago uh but i think also the the narrative in some ways is how

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And technology is also something that kind of people have mixed feelings about.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Like I said this before, and this is something I really believe very strongly, the ability of information to be captured and spread easily is such an effective tool in exposing humanity at its worst.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Because it's one thing if I sit here and tell you,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

what i saw in these villages it's another thing i sat you down and showed you a youtube and you know you and i don't know what it's like to look in the eyes of someone who's uh thinking about kill eating their own kids i mean and you see that face and you know it's you know not something some cgi it's it will haunt you forever

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So what he implemented with the Great Terror is... That's in the late 30s.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

It's throughout the 30s, but yeah, it starts in the mid to late 30s.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Basically, communism was based on the common good and the public good.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And anything private, which was bourgeois...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

was a problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

When they were started, you know, when the revolution came, the October revolution, they wanted to recreate society entirely.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And that included like, okay, let's make it so everyone eats in like cafeterias.