What Dan Houser thinks about politics

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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31 Oct 2025

Our readingThe one political value worth fighting for is opposing thought control: removing someone for saying the wrong thing is never the right outcome, whichever side does it.

Their wordsThe never right outcome is, “Oh, you’ve said the wrong thing. You should be removed now.” That should never ever be a thing we should lean towards.

↗Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording