• prole
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    8 months ago

    Who the fuck cares what that schlub thinks anyway? Seriously, how the fuck did this guy get so goddamn big and well known? He’s a joke.

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        8 months ago

        Right, but as you say this, there’s like a 5 hour “debate” on youtube with three very serious academics on this topic. He sticks out like a sore thumb. Norm Finkelstein straight up calls him out for clearly never even having read a book on the subject. It’s humiliating.

        He only gets gigs like that because he has a massive audience.

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      8 months ago

      I didn’t think about him until he embarrassed himself in front of me and nkw it’s all i can think about im obsessed with it

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          Destiny had a “debate” with Finkelstein a few days ago on Lex Friedman where he verbatim repeated every piece of debunked Hasbara available it was quite embarrassing to watch. Example:

          When Finkelstein said that the IDF murdered four children on a beach Mr. Boneri said that was a lie and those children were inside a "Hamas compound. A simple Google shows Mr Canoli had no idea what he was talking about

          Israel exonerates itself over Gaza beach killings of four children last year

          An account of the investigation, posted late on Thursday by military spokesman Lt Col Peter Lerner, said the strike had targeted a “compound” which had been known as belonging to Hamas’s Naval Police and Naval Force (including naval commandos)”.

          But journalists who attended the scene in the immediate aftermath of the attack – including a reporter from the Guardian – saw a small and dilapidated fisherman’s hut containing a few tools where the children had been playing hide-and-seek.

          The Israeli claims appear at odds in several details with what journalists were able to see at the time.

          So the “The IDF investigated themselves and found they have done nothing wrong” is basically every argument for pro-israeli grifters.

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            Destiny had a “debate” with Finkelstein a few days ago where he verbatim repeated every piece of debunked Hasbara available it was quite embarrassing to watch.

            Damn. Destiny recently said that he could finally start to read on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a result of getting medication for his ADHD. I wasn’t expecting that to turn him into an even bigger moron.

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              8 months ago

              Vyvanse and Adderall don’t make you smarter. They make a train wreck

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                Not if he actually has ADHD… Dunno if you’ve ever met someone who is actually legitimately prescribed Adderall, but it doesn’t make them tweak out. It makes them able to concentrate more like a neurotypical person.

                Destiny is just a train wreck because he’s an idiot.

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                    8 months ago

                    Maybe you need a better doctor, or a different medicine.

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                Plenty of people with ADHD take Adderall because it helps them function. Don’t universalize your experience with a specific drug designed to help a specific kind of brain, specially when there’s plenty of people with opposite experiences.

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      8 months ago

      He was a mid StarCraft 2 player who said funny things when he got mad, I have no idea how it got to this. He was never funny on purpose, it was funny watching him be salty and now hes some political commentator.

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      8 months ago

      How did the President of the United States get so big and well known?

      I think notoriety comes with the job, idk.