Politics
Saad Reports Academic Colleague Ended Decades Long Friendship Over Trump Posts
Impact Theory
The West at a Crossroads: How Radical Compassion and Self-Loathing Are Tearing Us Apart. Pt 2 w/ Dr Gad Saad | Imapact Theory W. Tom Bilyeu
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"He writes me this long private message on LinkedIn, actually, where he says, unfortunately, given some of the posts that I've seen you put up on Trump. So, and I was thinking about what did I— now, first of all, I'm Canadian. So if your concern is whether I voted for someone, I did not vote for Donald Trump. But from his perspective, what he was most upset about is I showed absolutely no evidence that I thought that Trump was an existential threat to the United States."
Gad Saad described how a close friend from his PhD days at Cornell ended their 30-year friendship via LinkedIn message because Saad did not treat Trump as an existential threat. Despite Saad being Canadian and unable to vote, the colleague cut ties based solely on social media posts, exemplifying the deep political fracture in American society.
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