Sam Harris Goes Full TDS...
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Who is Sam Harris and why do I care what he thinks?
PeoplesElbow
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I was thinking who is that too. Kamala Harris relation? Hope it's not a Franco Harris relation.
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Sam Harris: Censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden exposés ‘warranted’ to beat Trump
Best-selling author Sam Harris has sparked outrage by claiming the “left-wing conspiracy” to bury The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop was “warranted” to keep former President Donald Trump out of power — and Harris wouldn’t even care if the cracked-out first son had “the corpses of children in his basement.”
In a now-viral interview on the “TRIGGERnometry” podcast, Harris, 55, happily dismissed those who said it was “completely unfair” to have shut down The Post’s Twitter account to silence its explosive reporting.
The influential philosopher noted how critics called it “a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.”
“Absolutely it was. Absolutely. But I think it was warranted,” the “Waking Up” author claimed.
Notice he still talks about trumps corruption… Like any of the bullshit investigations were real! There was no corruption you asswipes Made it all up!
You lost your ****ing minds because Trump was mean to the left!
“No fair!!! Republicans aren’t supposed to fight back!”
You lost your ****ing minds because Trump was mean to the left!
“No fair!!! Republicans aren’t supposed to fight back!”
Fox News reported Wednesday that Harris said this on his popular and ironically titled Making Sense podcast: “I’ve said on several occasions that I think Donald Trump is a worse person than Usama bin Laden. The statement is obviously meant to get your attention. I get that it’s surprising, but it’s not meant to be hyperbolic. I can defend every word of a statement like that. What I can’t defend are people’s misunderstandings and erroneous extrapolations of a statement like that.”
In Sam Harris’ twisted moral universe, the man who masterminded the murder of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, was “a more or less normal human being psychologically.” Yes, indeed, it’s perfectly normal psychologically to plot to take down a couple of skyscrapers full of office workers and murder thousands of innocent people because they lived in a nation one considered to be an enemy of the alleged true religion. Happens every day.
Harris claims that “within the framework of his [bin Laden’s] odious beliefs, he demonstrated many virtues.” That is true. Bin Laden adhered, after all, to a religion with a holy book that thrice commands believers to “kill them,” that is, unbelievers, “wherever you find them,” even in the Twin Towers (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5).
To Harris, this makes Osama “a man who certainly seemed to be capable of real self-sacrifice and he was committed to ideals beyond his narrow self-interest. He was by all accounts personally quite courageous. I don’t claim to know that much about him, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was generally a person of real integrity and generosity and compassion in his dealings with his fellow Muslims. None of these things can be said about Donald Trump. Trump is without question one of the least honest and malignantly selfish human beings I have ever come across.” How does Harris know both Osama bin Laden’s and Donald Trump’s innermost thoughts, intentions, and beliefs so comprehensively? He doesn’t deign to explain.
In Sam Harris’ twisted moral universe, the man who masterminded the murder of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, was “a more or less normal human being psychologically.” Yes, indeed, it’s perfectly normal psychologically to plot to take down a couple of skyscrapers full of office workers and murder thousands of innocent people because they lived in a nation one considered to be an enemy of the alleged true religion. Happens every day.
Harris claims that “within the framework of his [bin Laden’s] odious beliefs, he demonstrated many virtues.” That is true. Bin Laden adhered, after all, to a religion with a holy book that thrice commands believers to “kill them,” that is, unbelievers, “wherever you find them,” even in the Twin Towers (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5).
To Harris, this makes Osama “a man who certainly seemed to be capable of real self-sacrifice and he was committed to ideals beyond his narrow self-interest. He was by all accounts personally quite courageous. I don’t claim to know that much about him, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he was generally a person of real integrity and generosity and compassion in his dealings with his fellow Muslims. None of these things can be said about Donald Trump. Trump is without question one of the least honest and malignantly selfish human beings I have ever come across.” How does Harris know both Osama bin Laden’s and Donald Trump’s innermost thoughts, intentions, and beliefs so comprehensively? He doesn’t deign to explain.
"I've ever come across" - what are the chances he's never met him?
But I wouldn't call bin Laden "courageous". He didn't lead men in battle, he didn't strap on a bomb jacket, and he didn't fly planes into buildings.
He let OTHER people die for his beliefs. When he was taken down, he wasn't living in a cave in squalor and filth. His compound was by no means palatial but by all accounts, he had it built and moved in sometime in 2006 and doesn't appear to have ever left it. At least, not alive.
Whoever the hell Sam Harris is, he's got TDS real bad. The left cannot let go of their punching bags. How many years did it take for them to stop trashing Sarah Palin? The losing VP who ran ONE time - and they were relentless for years.
But I wouldn't call bin Laden "courageous". He didn't lead men in battle, he didn't strap on a bomb jacket, and he didn't fly planes into buildings.
He let OTHER people die for his beliefs. When he was taken down, he wasn't living in a cave in squalor and filth. His compound was by no means palatial but by all accounts, he had it built and moved in sometime in 2006 and doesn't appear to have ever left it. At least, not alive.
Whoever the hell Sam Harris is, he's got TDS real bad. The left cannot let go of their punching bags. How many years did it take for them to stop trashing Sarah Palin? The losing VP who ran ONE time - and they were relentless for years.
BOP
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The left is like spoiled brat children who've been coddled and catered to their entire lives - until the evil step daddy came along and told them "no." Predictably, they threw a massive fit, screaming "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" much like children do when they're thwarted by a parent attempting to instill discipline.