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Good stuff

I've long been thinking about writing a Substack article about Lex Fridman being astroturfed but I never really knew where to start. It was just a hunch I had, so I didn't want to slander him as a spy or whatever without any proof -- just based on my gut feeling and gossip -- and I never bothered to spend the time to do the research. Maybe I will use this article as inspiration / as a jumping off point.

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It is no longer crazy to hypothesize that media personalities like Friedman and Shapiro work either explicitly or implicitly as Zionist agents. This is very significant because Zionism, by its very definition, requires adherents to place “the tribe” above all others, even if this means compromising one’s own country.

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Interesting comment; it would be easier if Zionists lived in Israel or planned to do so eventually. Three problems:

1. U.S. government positions held by dual/non-US citizens. When Yellen was governor of the Federal Reserve System (before Jay), her vice-chair was Stanley Fischer. He had just served as governor of the central bank of Israel. Also, Fischer isn't a great economist; better than Yellen, but that's not saying much. Obama admin arranged it. Trump ended it. The head of Ukraine's central bank was an American woman at a senior level in the US State Dept. She isn't Jewish. She holds dual Ukrainian-US citizenship and was a co-worker of Vicky Nuland pre-2014. She's back working in D.C. now.

2. Until the mid-1960s, most Israel funding was by religious organizations (some Jewish, some Christian) and individuals. Of the latter, some were Zionists; they intended to move to Israel permanently. Then there was a shift (approx. 10 years before regime change in Iran, but I'm not suggesting that was the motivation). Do be aware that saying one is a Zionist these days in the U.S. will elicit similar responses as saying women's suffrage was a bad idea. Most American Jews are leftists, atheists, and intermarry if they have any children.

3. Israel needs to make friends in its own neighborhood. That seemed like a real possibility until recently.

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AI is the jew "messiah", or so they think. But it will turn out to be their undoing!

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AI is disturbing. It is no one's messiah. I am afraid of how so many are drawn to AI.

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Great insight. The next decade is going to be interesting. I’m convinced that it is almost impossible for the US to extricate itself from Israel. Israel’s hegemonic and ethno-colonial aspirations are so intertwined with the US “mission” I simply cannot fathom it can be undone. At least not diplomatically, economically or culturally. Thoughts?

One of the great ironies is the ways in which the conservative movement in the US has embraced Israel. Their evangelical fever-dreams of the faithful floating up into the sky to meet God must have the Zionists in stitches.

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Hello, khh. Thank you for the nice reply. I'm sorry for taking so long to return.

American evangelicals who believe in the Rapture (to which you alluded), are increasingly nonplussed by atheist American Jews' hostility toward them. Zionists in Israel aren't hostile to American evangelicals. Why? Overlap in the western cannon. E.g. common interests such as archeological excavations in the region. Many projects are funded by both groups. They hope for and occasionally find physical corroboration of Biblical scripture like the Dead Sea scrolls, and associated references in Greco-Roman records.

Our proxy war with Russia is unravelling US diplomatic relations, with the exception of the UK and EU. (After balking for a few months, EU countries fell into line, or even sacrificed themselves, e.g. Germany's deindustrialization.) I'm unsure re Likud, but Netanyahu's predecessor, Bennett, had zero interest in supporting Ukraine. Ukraine voted against Israel in 20 out of 20 UN votes with Zelensky in office.

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Yet more Jewish subversion, oy vey!

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He needs a good slap. He's the definitive gamma-male racist. I urge you to look into Israeli military unit 8200 for technology spying and theft which is a global operation and can be researched on LinkedIn.

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As much as I love the type of long freestyle interviews that Rogan popularized and Fridman is now giving a more intellectual touch, I've been wary of his origins for some time. He claims to be a Russian-born Jew with Russian & Ukranian roots who migrated to the US with little to nothing, but somehow he surpassed Rogan in fame in no time, by managing to get every expert in every field to talk with him? That sure is... odd...

With him recently uploading pictures of his martial arts sparring sessions with Elon Musk and him just uploading an interview with Netanyahu, it's hard not to suspect him being a Mossad agent. The martial arts training definitely fits the profile. And it sure would explain his remarkably fast rise to fame, as well as his access to highly influential people only a very select few have access to.

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Hello, Charles. I have been curious about Lex Friedman's background too! I noticed how he was adulated on LinkedIn, in 2021. I couldn't ascertain if he had a PhD, quite what or where he studied, and the chronology was irregular. Odd how he presented himself as a full-time PhD post-grad physicist. Peculiar to do that AND have an active podcast, make lengthy LinkedIn posts and engaging with replies, etc. Lex seems to live rather comfortably, and travel a lot, which is also odd.

Drexel used to be a small college in Philadelphia, offering degrees in a narrow slice of the applied sciences and engineering. It was a smaller version of Temple U, "the working man's college". Students were mostly male, part-time, employed, and older than 25. Since 2010, it received a lot of attention and money. Now it is a university with full-time students and national visibility.

You mentioned NN Taleb. He is a nice man. Well, that's not the best way to put it! The longer I know him, the more I appreciate him. Humble brag: we are mutuals on Twitter. We do similar work, focusing on probability in its own right, not merely a subdomain of statistics. Except I don't function at his level!

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Lex sure is thestrangestguy

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Most interesting. Thanks.

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Charles Johnson, I'm back, again and have some Lex Fridman information to share with you! I had not focused on the video about the older Fridman bro upon first reading your post. I agree that he is a bit OCD about that Rivian vehicle! (This will be my 4th comment on your post, which is also a bit OCD admittedly.) I finally navigated to the younger of the Brothers Fridman's LinkedIn. I beheld something so vapid that it defied belief.

As you said, Greg Fridman is formerly of Drexel (a formerly staid, solid, stolid, and respectable physical and natural sciences college in Philadelphia). Greg has a PhD just like Lex. You must see Greg's company's website to believe it. He is the CEO. Why does anyone with products selling for under $50 https://aaplasma.com/store need two EEs, an ME, and a virologist?! And why would anyone who supposedly designed websites for 4 years make his own company's website all purple?! But it gets better! Greg Fridman got his PhD at Drexel, in the SAME department that his father is chairman. Also, his father's name is Alexander Fridman, and he's sometimes known as Alex. This presents a big problem, as Lex Fridman is Jewish. Jews don't name their children after still-living relatives, i.e. no Jr. or the III. How can Lex have the same name as his dad?

There's lots more I found, but I'll stop now. I think there is some serious NSF fraud going on. One more thing: Dad Fridman is supposedly the originator of an entirely new field of physics called plasma physics. I'm really suspicious. Everyone in that plasma physics department at Drexel has Ukrainian names. Oh and one last thing: Dad Fridman won some sort of award from George Soros in 2005 or so!

P.S. I realized that we know people in common! Like Pax and Levi who used to be hyperstitious on Twitter. Oh, and I cleaned up your ClearView entry on Wikipedia a little bit. I edit and try not to troll.

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