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  • TheWurstman [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Idk why any serious person would ever bother debating with Destiney that guy is a moron

    • beef_curds [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      It's actually kind of instructive, how if you have a smallish cadre of organized actors you can hack this stuff.

      He's just got a discord full of diehards who harangue people until he can juice content out of it. After they've done it long enough, they raise his profile with the target until the target is so annoyed that they feel like they have to address it.

      Then they meet with him and, win or lose, it makes him seem more like a legitimate public figure.

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        It also helps that Alex Friedman is exactly the type to see Destiny positively and put him in that debate when any other scholar would have made a quality discussion.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          Because Destiny is the personification of Reddit. He's living every redditors dream life. Making a living off of preaching faux internet knowledge from Wikipedia articles to his choir of clapping seals over the internet.

        • s0ykaf [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          he represents the overly online debate lord liberal loser demographic, so of course he's gonna have a lot of fans - people like him, who will defend their avatar at all costs

          it's like taylor swift with the utterly mediocre