• zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
    ·
    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]
        ·
        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]
          ·
          edit-2
          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.