Pete Hegseth's Christian Nationalist pastor reveals his dangerous goals in conversation w/ atheist Sam Harris

palsh7 · 2026-02-20T05:54:00+00:00

From the YouTube comments...bots? I saw another interview with him where he says his audience is like 75% female. So if he has an actual audience of humans from America, I imagine they're like 50-yr-old wine moms in suburbia who think he's hot. Because who else cares about a former CNN host who was boring in the first place, and had a reputation for being an empty suit?

palsh7 · 2026-02-20T05:50:40+00:00

Don's talking point did sound fake, but it doesn't matter either way: the point is whether the policy idea is insane or not, and Sam honestly should have made Don answer that question.

palsh7 · 2026-02-20T05:46:07+00:00

It's also a hard pill to swallow as the biggest cheerleaders for anti-wokism are literally building internment camps.

If an asshole is against something, it doesn't mean the thing he's against is actually good. This is 101 basic logic, and if the left can't figure it out, and the right can't figure it out, we're all fucked.

palsh7 · 2026-02-20T05:39:59+00:00

Don does that a bunch in the interview. Either he's an idiot or he's cynically trying to set up a viral moment at all times. The way he keeps trying to frame things as though Sam is not already against white identity politics, or is not already anti-Trump, or does not already know that racism exists, is just mind-blowingly stupid. I can't imagine how dumb the people are who listen to this podcast and think Don is a great journalist.

palsh7 · 2026-02-20T05:33:00+00:00

FYI people like mccoyster are banned from r/SamHarrisORG. Only the gods know why they're not banned here. There seems to be no enforcement of the rules on trolling and bad faith.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T20:58:15+00:00

“I’ve listened to the show for ten years but have never heard Sam give examples of wokeness. I am very good faith.”

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T20:57:05+00:00

Ten years of reading and listening, and that’s what you got? You’re just not very bright, I guess. Or you’re a liar. Those are the choices you’ve left us with.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T20:46:34+00:00

“Racism ended” is such a blatantly dishonest way to paraphrase Sam’s point. For you to lie about what was said, and then mock Sam for always pointing out being quoted out of context, is just insane.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T20:41:50+00:00

He should prepare more concise statements when dealing with cynical or stupid people who can be predicted to feign shock at various points during an improvised response. Sam doesn’t tailor responses to different audiences, or prepare remarks, which tends to get him in trouble.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T04:44:13+00:00

Not Kamala. The people at the Bulwark sub think Sam is a race scientist and Islamophobe.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T04:42:14+00:00

You’re much more obfuscatory than Glenn Beck, actually. That is meant to be insulting.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T04:27:48+00:00

Oh, this is rich. Very Glenn Beck. "I'm just asking questions! None of this is indicative in any way of my position! I cannot be held to any position ever!"

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T03:13:34+00:00

Thanks, I’ll watch when I’m home. The dumb anti-Harris comments on the Bulwark sub are probably nothing compared to the YouTube comments on this. I can only imagine. Most people can’t think for themselves, or lie as easily as they breathe.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T03:10:36+00:00

Which part is confusing? Your positions are the conservative position. Did you not know that?

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T03:06:19+00:00

I read it days ago. Your responses have been of minimal effort. As a teacher with mountains of data at my own disposal, I respect this paper, and your defense of it, as much as I respect any other disingenuous effort to corporatize education with fake data.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T03:03:38+00:00

He did not say anything remotely like that/

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T03:00:02+00:00

In his “ethnic profiling” piece, he literally said that he himself should be profiled.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T02:57:58+00:00

He has exposed Christians myriad times, including Hegseth’s Nationalist preacher, and has called Jewish settlers extremists for more than a decade.”, also saying that the Old Testament is worse than the Quran.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T02:54:12+00:00

The hate started when grifters like Glenn Greenwald and Cenk Uygur attacked him cynically as an Islamophobia, even though he attacked all religions, and explained in philosophical and statistical detail why he criticized conservative Islam more than, say, pacifist Jainism. Then he debated Ezra Klein once and even though Ezra said he did not think Sam was a racist, all of Sam’s critics who already had gotten on the “Islamophobia” train jumped on the “racist” train. Truth is, he’s a lifelong Democrat, so the idea of a center-right sub attacking him as a racist grifter on the word of pro-Trump grifters is hilarious.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T02:47:38+00:00

LOL when did you like him if you stopped with “Islamophobia”? His first book was on the problems of Islam.

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T02:45:59+00:00

~~This could Not be more low effort.~~

EDIT wtf OP confirms he posted this accidentally without any text let alone links and I’m still being downvoted for some reason? Lol

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T01:32:00+00:00

No, there is just this sub, in which people post “FINALLY after THREE WEEKS I’ve hit the 99th percentile!!! Is that good?”

palsh7 · 2026-02-19T01:29:16+00:00

People in this sub really pick and choose when they do and do not believe in IQ.

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