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jesus christ the arrogance of this man. what the fuck possessed him to get on this stage with people who wrote the books that his Wikipedia research is summarizing. this man couldn't find israel on a map until a couple of days ago and thought Erdogan is the president of israel. and Norm just calls him on it over and over while continuously mispronouncing his name.

my favorite quote: "if Israel nuked Gaza and killed all 2 million people living there, I'm not sure it would count as genocide."

bonus: Hasan's coverage was so brutal that he rage quit his own stream 2 days in a row. he knows he got owned.

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

God what a naked attempt to minimize the body of work of a guy like Finkelstein while trying to elevate the completely empty cavity that is Destiny's skull. Lex Freedmen is just Joe Rogan in a suit.

By putting these guys in the same room he's drawing equivalences that don't exist.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 63 points 2 years ago

it backfired with anyone who actually watched it. twitter is flooded with clips of him owning himself and Finkelstein owning him. he did so poorly that he made Benny Morris somehow look more insane than he already obviously is. and he himself is trying desperately to keep his audience from actually watching it while malding about it publicly. literally if he'd just sat there and said absolutely nothing the entire time, he'd have done a much better job of letting Fridman launder the false equivalence between himself and these academics. but obviously he can't shut the fuck up so here we are.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago

Some people have a voice made for radio. Finkelstein has a voice made for stridently owning people.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The nuke take was insane. His argument was that there was no "special intent", as if bombs, you know things made SPECIFICALLY to kill and destroy, just happened to materialize out of thin air above Gaza.

To quote Deng: "this person may seem smart but in fact is stupid."

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

he's just a fascist. insert Sarte quote about antisemites.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 2 years ago

He is a fascist and an idiot. The nerve to show up with actual scholars and try pulling up the debatelord strats is very telling.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

he actually thought preparing quips and gotchas was the best way to prepare for this. one of his gotchas was that a quote from an Israeli official was taken out of context so he read the whole thing. needless to say, the whole thing just reiterated what the original quote actually said and didn't actually change the meaning of the words in any way. his brain has completely leaked out of his ears.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

jordan-eboy-peterson "Worked for me..."

[-] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Nothing about Destiny “seems smart”.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago

Christ almighty I hope people’s takeaway is about the astonishing level of knowledge and poise on the pro-Palestine side rather than “hehe funnyman norm didn’t know this irrelevant streamer’s name”

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

Also it’s so obvious destiny prepped with Dronerbox, a goddamn two person human ouroboros of shit. All the “intl law is meaningless” and “realistically…” is straight of their playbook

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I feel sad that I know exactly who you’re referring tob

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Lex Friedman’s audience are the most credulous goons imaginable, totally ignoring Mouni’s arguments because he’s the most straightforward and even-keeled, nothing but tone

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Also I’m sorry to keep spamming this thread, but Benny totally dodged the Cecil Rhodes point. Just absolutely ignored any comparison between colonialisms

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

never stop posting

For me, it's just the cherry on top. It was good to listen to someone as well educated in the topic as Norm.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

the first bit about history was incredibly impressive. but then the trashman derailed the whole thing.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 2 years ago

you mean the chud was watching Hasan cover the debate? 😂 hasan lives rent free on that chud head.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

twice! and got bigmad both times!

Maybe we should all start to refer to Destiny as "Mr.Borelli" from now on.

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

FD Signifier called him "Nebraska Steve" and that's how I've referred to the little chode since

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[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Mr. Bonnell? Ah, you're talking about Mr. Morelli. It would be perfectly fine to call Mr. Farelli, Mr. Berelli.

Anyway, fuck Mr. Barelli.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I'm partial to Mr Bonerelli, personally

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago

But spell it different each time

I like that but, Borelli will always be my favorite. It sounds like he's the owner of a corner Italian deli.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Mr Gusano Borelli

[-] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago
[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So far the peak moment for me was when mr morelli was like "why would the israelis ethnically cleanse Palestinians in 1948, wouldn't that have cost them legitimacy with western powers?" and Norm is just holding his head in his hands while his debate partner calmly explains that western powers were endlessly comfortable with the displacement dark skinned people

[-] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

There was a moment in the Hasan stream where a chatter came in saying Destiny had studied for thousands of hours for this debate and that Hasan should address his points directly instead of making fun of him. Hasan laughed hysterically for like a minute straight.

[-] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

In which streams did Hasan cover the debate? I can’t stand listening to Mr. Borrell for more than two minutes without some distraction.

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[-] LeninsWorldTour@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb

[-] D61@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Damnit... i didn't want to watch this... but maybe I will.

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Bit idea: Mister Morelli And The Big Steppers (2021)

[-] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Why? Its like that time graeber wrote a critisism of pinker and everybody was thinking "you are hitting down at unworthy foes" but more so.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Destiny deserves any humbling he receives

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Norm was there to go at it with Benny Morris. Mr. Bonerelli inserted himself into that repeatedly so Norm started telling him to shut up and sit down you sniveling worm.

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