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David Sacks on

policy

6 entries, 20 Jun 2020 to 27 Sep 2025

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      Sacks cites Japan, South Korea, and Czech Republic as proof that mask-wearing controls COVID.

      “South Korea, fifty one million people under three hundred deaths. You take a a Western European nation like Czech Republic, they had a huge COVID outbreak, a spike just like the rest of Europe.”

      20 Jun 2020 · All-In Podcast · 13:06 · source · permalink
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      Sacks cites research showing unionized police departments have more complaints and use of force issues.

      “Bill Gurley has been tweeting a lot of great research that around police departments that are unionized, there's a lot more complaints against them.”

      20 Jun 2020 · All-In Podcast · 37:07 · source · permalink
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      Sacks criticizes expansive US objectives in Ukraine including toppling Putin and framing as autocracy versus democracy.

      “And moreover, you've got the State Department declaring that we're in a global struggle between autocracy and democracy. So we've defined the struggle in Manichean terms.”

      25 May 2022 · All-In Podcast · 17:56 · source · permalink
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      Sacks claims no American president has ever declared Ukraine a vital US national interest.

      “no American president has ever claimed that The United States has a vital national interest in Ukraine. Name the president who's done it before.”

      25 May 2022 · All-In Podcast · 18:18 · source · permalink
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      Sacks says DC had its first two weeks without murders in a long time under National Guard deployment.

      “Crime is down. I think we had the first two weeks where there was no murders in the capital in a long time. The residents are very happy. So this is definitely working.”

      7 Sep 2025 · All-In Podcast · 45:22 · source · permalink
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      Sacks argues the $100,000 H-1B fee will redirect applications from low-end IT jobs to high-skilled positions with actual American shortages.

      “And I think by putting this $100,000 fee on it, you encourage the applications to go to the actual higher skilled, higher paid jobs where there's actually a shortage of Americans.”

      27 Sep 2025 · All-In Podcast · 4:36 · source · permalink

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