• Grownbravy [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    okay, i have to ask, how did this fuck wit rise to any degree of notoriety? What was happening that this guy became someone people listen to and believe in? Like, how? From where we are, there was a world before him, and then suddenly a world with him. What happened?

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Debate Bros are easy watching.

      They make you feel good cos you feel like you just won an argument which means you're smarter than another person now. This releases chemicals into your brain.

      Same reason with lib/fash like Destiny and conservatives like Ben Shapiro get popular. Not only do debate bros agree with you, but they shit on everyone you don't agree with. That's a twofer right there.

      Of course he lacks any strict kind of ideology and it's easy to dunk on people who will defend China or whatever because it's so easy to just point at the closest atrocity the West is peddling and go "you support this, you fucking murderer" so it's easy to "win" debates.

      He's an "anarchist" in the sense that he thinks being an anarchist means non-violence and that doing anything other than voting or dunking on right wingers on stream is violence.

        • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, there are videos of creationist nutters just absolutely bodying evolutionists (is that the term? lol) because they just get the right jab in at the right time.

          Their ideology is dumb dogshit but they "won" the debate because they were better at communicating their dumb idea.

          • ToastGhost [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Thats basically Ben Shapiro's whole thing. He researches the fuck out of something, finds every aspect he can use in his favor, then challenges some college kid who only has a laymens understanding of the topic. The college kids who hold their own in the debate dont end up in "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS liberals compilation #37", thus Ben is always the winner.

        • DasRav [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          His whole claim to fame, besides the sex and saying the n-word, is being banned by Destiny for being too left. That's his own side of the story at least.

          Yes I had a week where I watched this fucker unironically and I still feel bad.

    • sandinista209 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      As someone who used to watch him, he does fine with taking down nazis and other reactionaries, which is probably why he got such a following. But if you watch enough of his stuff, it’s pretty clear he views communists and “tankies” as being just as bad as fascists, which is just dumb af.

    • RowPin [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      "Personally I just put him on in the background like a podcast." -- Ancient caveman phrase for "this video fucking sucks"