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  • beef_curds [she/her]
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    8 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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      8 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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        8 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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        8 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