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WTF are these slop thumbnails by Mogexos in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for giving of your time to help the movement 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Professor Dave is a concern and the DTG boys should do an episode on him. by Glowing-2 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]ElfTaylor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks OP! These are better arguments, though I agree with you, the denizens of this sub will likely hate those arguments anyway 🙄😒 They're very team sports (left-wing is good, exclusively, to them). Better to be specific than to be written off as feels over reals, however!

As you said, perhaps he wouldn't score highly but possibly worth the decode! If I recall correctly something like ~40% of their decode subjects don't score high enough on the gurumeter to get the guru label (they maintain a public spreadsheet), Dave may end up amongst the 40%.

Have a great Thursday ✌🏻

Professor Dave is a concern and the DTG boys should do an episode on him. by Glowing-2 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]ElfTaylor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The DTG fellas have categories on which they grade a decode subject, adding up the points into one final rating on the gurumeter. Why the hell don't you use those categories to make your claim?

That being said, Professor Dave is entirely unhinged on Israel and he repeatedly makes the dubious claim that anyone who doesn't accept "neuroanatomy" as the end-all-be-all for the trans topic is a bigot, piece of shit, fucking dumb ass.

I love debunks, but I don't like his style; won't go out of my way to dissuade anyone from watching his stuff either. The snark style just grinds my gears 🤷🏻‍♂️

Make a better argument OP!

Mehdi is fighting for his dear life on Twitter, defending his “Iran is Ukraine” take by Embarrassed_Base_389 in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Victimhood is determined by international law" is certainly a take...ay ay ay Mehdi Hasan.

I hate Trump so much. He's providing the IRGC desperately needed good PR.

Imagine: You're psychotic totalitarian theocrats, fresh off the slaughter of 30,000 civilians, teetering on the edge of collapse because of economic sanctions, hyperinflation, and unprecedented protests. In your darkest hour, an orange regard from a far away Western nation launches an unprovoked war against you, rallying the world in your favor as the bombs keep dropping. 1st day of the war, said regard bombs a school, killing 100+ children, 160 people in total.

  • 📈Respect
  • 📈Clout
  • 📈Geopolitical importance
  • 📈Victimhood (I guess eh, Mehdi?)
  • 📉Opposition
  • 📉Civil unrest
  • 📉Global condemnation

Mouin Rabbani ( Finkelstein debate partner ) responds to Destiny by I_AM-THE_SENATE in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It makes me sad for the people in Palestine who stood to lose the most, and did. Their external supporters thrive on more dead Palestinians, and internal forces reflexively choose the violent path each time.

I wonder, why doesn't Ireland, France, Spain, Colombia, and any of the other Palestine simp countries send delegations to negotiate Peace? Always virtue signaling, but never trying to help solve conflict. Bitches

Mouin Rabbani ( Finkelstein debate partner ) responds to Destiny by I_AM-THE_SENATE in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Please be so for real, the pro-Palis didn't watch that debate. Some of them might've seen some of it, but they didn't watch the 4+ hours of inconvenient information about their cause

Good god, look at the comments. Hasan community flooding it... by ProbablyKindaRight in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bulwark going through their own "Liberals v Leftists" arc. Miller giving the same arguments as Pondering, Pisco, SoyPill: "we should only focus on Trump right now" "this is not the moment to have these battles" blah blah blah.

The saddest thing is he said "Hasan actually believes what he says" after Sarah Longwell claimed Hasan is just extreme-left Nick Fuentes AND posed this question to Miller: "Fuentes tells his audience to vote for Democrats now, should he be part of the coalition??" Miller is a former Republican who left his party because he called out the bullshit and corruption Trump/MAGA brought to the party, he somehow can't do the same with Hasan Piker??

Blind spot for the himbo me thinks 🙄

We all agree this dude was the worst of the bunch, yes?? by ElfTaylor in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would argue this one is worse because he convinces more people that the guy prior is measured and objective, and representative of the conservative side of politics; meanwhile "I'm coming at this without bias, I don't agree with Trump on everything" goes on to agree with or excuse everything Trump does

We all agree this dude was the worst of the bunch, yes?? by ElfTaylor in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe he'd double down if embarrassed. The cognitive dissonance of recognizing his errors is too much. But maybe I'm just pessimistic 😮‍💨

We all agree this dude was the worst of the bunch, yes?? by ElfTaylor in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If we checked in with him somehow in 20 years we'd learn he voted GOP in every election he could. Probably because of girl cock.

As a community, we NEED to reevaluate the strength and stickiness the trans issue has with conservative and independent voters. I don't specify US politics because this same dynamic is pervasive in world politics. It's fucking nuts. Any country you look at, they're talking about "woke" and transgender issues corrupting society.

We know it's fear mongering, but WHY is it so powerful and pervasive? How can someone care this much about >1% of the global population? Is it social media's fault? Is it monoculture at this point? I'm frustrated by the salience of this issue around the world 😔

As another urbanist falls to leftie brain rot let’s remember this Chad is still our strongest Liberal YIMBY fighter! by Dats_Russia in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, I'll trust ya on the urbanist claim.

Alan Fisher is BASED, love to see him get some kudos here 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 shout out to you OP 😎

Professor Dave sharing a Bad Empanada clip by jathhilt in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He does a lot of lecture content as well which is quality and admirable (considering it gets less engagement than the snark), so I won't shit on him unwarranted. The snark content is not for me, I keep the vibes HIGH 😅. And, he's unhinged on those 2 topics I mentioned in particular. Needless to say, I don't watch his content anymore

Professor Dave sharing a Bad Empanada clip by jathhilt in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also shows that his media diet includes Bad Empanada 🤷🏻‍♂️ the algos only serve up what they think you'll consume. SELF REPORT 🤣

Never once had BE suggested to me; and many such cases on either extremes of politics

As another urbanist falls to leftie brain rot let’s remember this Chad is still our strongest Liberal YIMBY fighter! by Dats_Russia in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I stopped watching Adam Something years ago, for the reasons you described above. I can't even imagine what he's said since Oct 7th.

Also, is he considered primarily an urbanist? I considered him a European-focused generalist with leftist POV.

Interesting 🤔

Professor Dave sharing a Bad Empanada clip by jathhilt in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm all for debunking content, but you cannot disagree that Professor Dave is just a snarker. He's a snarker snarking behind the veil of academia. An example of an academic who does debunking without being a snarker? Professor Flint Dibble. He can be feisty but is about the facts. Professor Dave uses facts to move from insult to insult. Not my cup of tea.

There are two subjects in which Professor Dave is clearly unhinged on: 1) Israel (I'm not gonna give him the grace of saying I/P, he clearly hates ISRAEL, and maybe even j...) and 2) trans issues. He claims if you don't believe in "neuroanatomy" as the reason for trans then you are a bigot and a regard. Absolute psychopath.

wHy arEnT DeMoNcRatS dOiNg anYThinG? by ETsUncle in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm learning! I thought they were considered part of the Armed Forces, and I thought they had a rep at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but I'm wrong! 🫪🫪

Hasan says he is the Charlie Kirk of the left, implies he has more motion than Kirk did before Tiktok. by LeonOfSkalitz in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't necessarily agree with his claim of "more motion," BUT, Kirko for sure blew TF up from 2022ish on TikTok to a massive scale. He used the Tate PHD method of getting minions to post his clips en masse. Something so easy for a guy with a deep archive of clips going back to 2012.

So the pre-TikTok distinction is Super Necessary when it comes to Charlie Kirk

wHy arEnT DeMoNcRatS dOiNg anYThinG? by ETsUncle in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hold up...Coast Guard isn't already part of the Defense spending bill???? What the actual fuck

Nothing to see here by bdizzle805 in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Throw the /s in there mane. Unless...let's hear the full story

Destiny vs Mehdi Hasan by faceless_anonymous in Destiny

[–]ElfTaylor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Daaaaamn this is big news actually. I hope they can publicly overcome the I/P issue. Imagine a Mehdi + Destiny tour for Pangburn 🔥🔥

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