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Lex Fridman: belief

29 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

“I think America has been really good at having these two blue and red, always at tension with each other, dividing the populace, and in the process of doing that, figuring stuff out.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
Recorded
29 Mar 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Twitter is not real world. There’s 20… Twitter is not real world. That’s true, yes, but you could still have a nation captured by an ideology. I think America has been really good at having these two blue and red, always at tension with each other, dividing the populace, and in the process of doing that, figuring stuff out. Almost like playing devil’s advocate, but in real life. And that’s fair. And that’s right. As opposed to Pravda telling you everything you want to know and everybody believing it, because there’s control of everything. And so going back to what you said earlier, people in Russia don’t think invading Ukraine… A lot of them see it as a positive. I’m sure you have relatives and friends who think it’s the best thing that ever happened, because they believe in Putin.…

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