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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The end of this corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is now, I think, dominating our democracy. That's what Eisenhower warned about. against the emergence of the military industrial complex.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The end of this corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is now, I think, dominating our democracy. That's what Eisenhower warned about. against the emergence of the military industrial complex.

5796.486 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The end of this corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is now, I think, dominating our democracy. That's what Eisenhower warned about. against the emergence of the military industrial complex.

5796.486 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And then I prefer to talk about kind of the positive vision of what we should be doing in our country and globally, which is, you know, I see that the corporations are commoditizing us, are poisoning our children, are, um, strip mining the wealth from our middle class. And, um,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And then I prefer to talk about kind of the positive vision of what we should be doing in our country and globally, which is, you know, I see that the corporations are commoditizing us, are poisoning our children, are, um, strip mining the wealth from our middle class. And, um,

5815.016 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And then I prefer to talk about kind of the positive vision of what we should be doing in our country and globally, which is, you know, I see that the corporations are commoditizing us, are poisoning our children, are, um, strip mining the wealth from our middle class. And, um,

5815.016 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

America as if it were a business in liquidation, converting assets to cash as quickly as possible, and creating or exacerbating this huge disparity in wealth in our country, which is eliminating the middle class and creating kind of a Latin American-style feudal model. There's these huge aggregations of wealth above and widespread poverty below the

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

America as if it were a business in liquidation, converting assets to cash as quickly as possible, and creating or exacerbating this huge disparity in wealth in our country, which is eliminating the middle class and creating kind of a Latin American-style feudal model. There's these huge aggregations of wealth above and widespread poverty below the

5839.843 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

America as if it were a business in liquidation, converting assets to cash as quickly as possible, and creating or exacerbating this huge disparity in wealth in our country, which is eliminating the middle class and creating kind of a Latin American-style feudal model. There's these huge aggregations of wealth above and widespread poverty below the

5839.843 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that's a configuration that is too unstable to support democracy sustainably. And we're supposed to be modeling democracy, but we're losing it.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that's a configuration that is too unstable to support democracy sustainably. And we're supposed to be modeling democracy, but we're losing it.

5868.089 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that's a configuration that is too unstable to support democracy sustainably. And we're supposed to be modeling democracy, but we're losing it.

5868.089 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

and I think we ought to have a foreign policy that restores our moral authority around the world, restores America as the embodiment of moral authority, which it was when my uncle was president, and as a purveyor of peace rather than a war-like nation. My uncle said he didn't want people in Africa and Latin America and Asia to think of

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

and I think we ought to have a foreign policy that restores our moral authority around the world, restores America as the embodiment of moral authority, which it was when my uncle was president, and as a purveyor of peace rather than a war-like nation. My uncle said he didn't want people in Africa and Latin America and Asia to think of

5879.527 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

and I think we ought to have a foreign policy that restores our moral authority around the world, restores America as the embodiment of moral authority, which it was when my uncle was president, and as a purveyor of peace rather than a war-like nation. My uncle said he didn't want people in Africa and Latin America and Asia to think of

5879.527 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

when they think of America, to picture a man with a gun and a bayonet. He wanted them to think of a Peace Corps volunteer. and he refused to send combat soldiers abroad. He never sent a single soldier to his death abroad into combat. He sent 16,000. He resisted in Berlin in 62. He resisted in Laos in 61. He resisted in In Vietnam, they wanted him to put 250,000 troops.

5907.415 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

when they think of America, to picture a man with a gun and a bayonet. He wanted them to think of a Peace Corps volunteer. and he refused to send combat soldiers abroad. He never sent a single soldier to his death abroad into combat. He sent 16,000. He resisted in Berlin in 62. He resisted in Laos in 61. He resisted in In Vietnam, they wanted him to put 250,000 troops.

5907.415 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

when they think of America, to picture a man with a gun and a bayonet. He wanted them to think of a Peace Corps volunteer. and he refused to send combat soldiers abroad. He never sent a single soldier to his death abroad into combat. He sent 16,000. He resisted in Berlin in 62. He resisted in Laos in 61. He resisted in In Vietnam, they wanted him to put 250,000 troops.

5907.415 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He only put 16,000 advisors, which was fewer troops. And he sent to get James Meredith into the universe, to Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, one black man. He sent 16,000. And a month before he died, he ordered them all home. Actually, I think it was October 2nd of 1963, he heard that a Green Beret had died. And he asked his aide for a list of combat fatalities.

5945.158 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He only put 16,000 advisors, which was fewer troops. And he sent to get James Meredith into the universe, to Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, one black man. He sent 16,000. And a month before he died, he ordered them all home. Actually, I think it was October 2nd of 1963, he heard that a Green Beret had died. And he asked his aide for a list of combat fatalities.

5945.158 View full episode β†’