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Rick Spence

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1494 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And we've just had this whole disastrous war and the world has been turned upside down. So there has to be some kind of explanation for that. I don't know. And one of the things this offered is, see, there's this evil plan. There's this evil plan that has been put into motion. And this could possibly explain what's taking place.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

The reason why the protocols were, I think, widely bought then, and why they still are in many ways, is the same reason that the taxel hoax I was talking about was. Because it told a story that people wanted to believe. So in France in the 1890s, there was widespread suspicion of Freemasons. It was seen as a somewhat sinister, secretive organization, certainly secretive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

The reason why the protocols were, I think, widely bought then, and why they still are in many ways, is the same reason that the taxel hoax I was talking about was. Because it told a story that people wanted to believe. So in France in the 1890s, there was widespread suspicion of Freemasons. It was seen as a somewhat sinister, secretive organization, certainly secretive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

The reason why the protocols were, I think, widely bought then, and why they still are in many ways, is the same reason that the taxel hoax I was talking about was. Because it told a story that people wanted to believe. So in France in the 1890s, there was widespread suspicion of Freemasons. It was seen as a somewhat sinister, secretive organization, certainly secretive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And there was also the same sort of generalized prejudices about Jews. clannish, distinct, too much influence, all of the things that went on. So it was sort of easy to combine those two things together. And even though Taxel admits it was a hoax, there were those who argued that this is just too, it's too accurate. It describes things too completely to be a hoax.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And there was also the same sort of generalized prejudices about Jews. clannish, distinct, too much influence, all of the things that went on. So it was sort of easy to combine those two things together. And even though Taxel admits it was a hoax, there were those who argued that this is just too, it's too accurate. It describes things too completely to be a hoax.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And there was also the same sort of generalized prejudices about Jews. clannish, distinct, too much influence, all of the things that went on. So it was sort of easy to combine those two things together. And even though Taxel admits it was a hoax, there were those who argued that this is just too, it's too accurate. It describes things too completely to be a hoax.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And then you get the same arguments. In fact, I've heard the same arguments with the protocols. I don't even buy this as an example of plagiarism because you can't actually prove what's being plagiarized in any sense. To me, the protocols are a prime example of what I call a turd on a plate. These things crop up. I have to explain that now. Yeah, please. What is a turd on a plate?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And then you get the same arguments. In fact, I've heard the same arguments with the protocols. I don't even buy this as an example of plagiarism because you can't actually prove what's being plagiarized in any sense. To me, the protocols are a prime example of what I call a turd on a plate. These things crop up. I have to explain that now. Yeah, please. What is a turd on a plate?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

And then you get the same arguments. In fact, I've heard the same arguments with the protocols. I don't even buy this as an example of plagiarism because you can't actually prove what's being plagiarized in any sense. To me, the protocols are a prime example of what I call a turd on a plate. These things crop up. I have to explain that now. Yeah, please. What is a turd on a plate?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Well, a turd on a plate is a turd on a plate. Suppose you come in and there's a plate sitting on the table and there's a turd on it. Now, the first thing you're going to want is, is that a turd? Is it a human turd? Where did it come from? Why would someone poop on a plate? There are all these questions that come to mind. It makes no sense. But that's what you come... It's just there, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Well, a turd on a plate is a turd on a plate. Suppose you come in and there's a plate sitting on the table and there's a turd on it. Now, the first thing you're going to want is, is that a turd? Is it a human turd? Where did it come from? Why would someone poop on a plate? There are all these questions that come to mind. It makes no sense. But that's what you come... It's just there, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Well, a turd on a plate is a turd on a plate. Suppose you come in and there's a plate sitting on the table and there's a turd on it. Now, the first thing you're going to want is, is that a turd? Is it a human turd? Where did it come from? Why would someone poop on a plate? There are all these questions that come to mind. It makes no sense. But that's what you come... It's just there, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

I don't know where it came from. I don't know why. But there's a turd on a plate. And that's what the protocol is, that they're just there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

I don't know where it came from. I don't know why. But there's a turd on a plate. And that's what the protocol is, that they're just there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

I don't know where it came from. I don't know why. But there's a turd on a plate. And that's what the protocol is, that they're just there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Let's blame them. So one of the first occasions you find the idea that Jews are a distinct, mean-spirited, nasty people goes back to a Greco-Egyptian historian named Manetho. This is around, I think, 300 B.C., early. Can't even rope the Romans into this one. So, Manetho is trying to write a history of the dynasties of Egypt.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Let's blame them. So one of the first occasions you find the idea that Jews are a distinct, mean-spirited, nasty people goes back to a Greco-Egyptian historian named Manetho. This is around, I think, 300 B.C., early. Can't even rope the Romans into this one. So, Manetho is trying to write a history of the dynasties of Egypt.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

Let's blame them. So one of the first occasions you find the idea that Jews are a distinct, mean-spirited, nasty people goes back to a Greco-Egyptian historian named Manetho. This is around, I think, 300 B.C., early. Can't even rope the Romans into this one. So, Manetho is trying to write a history of the dynasties of Egypt.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#451 โ€“ Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies

I think his history of dynasties of Egypt still is one of the basic works in this, but he tells this whole story, which essentially describes the kind of first blood libels that the, you know, the Jews to celebrate their, you know, various religious holidays would capture Greeks and fatten them up in the basement and then slaughter them and eat them or drain their blood or do something. Yeah.