Michael Malice: Christmas Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #347

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The White Pill (book) http://whitepillbook.com
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:06 – Santa and the White Pill
4:00 – Marxism and Anarchism
19:18 – The case for socialism
23:28 – Human nature and ideology
31:50 – Cynicism
47:35 – Twitter
52:16 – October Revolution
55:26 – Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin
59:51 – Communism
1:23:38 – Suppression of speech
1:45:34 – Twitter Files
1:52:37 – Self-publishing
2:05:57 – Kulaks and starvation
2:43:12 – The Great Terror
2:51:30 – Lavrentiy Beria
2:57:55 – Joseph Stalin
3:06:30 – Iron Curtain
3:18:59 – Ideologies vs leaders
3:22:51 – Emma Goldman
3:27:11 – White pill moments
3:38:34 – Hope for the future

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