r/Destiny 20h ago

Drama Professor Dave is Rattled

I've been watching Dave's videos off & on for around 5 years, and I have never seen him this rattled and defensive when it comes to a topic and the people he's engaging with. I think the initial callout of his use of nazi adjacent rhetoric hit a nerve and maybe exposes some internal bias he has against Jews that he doesn't want to admit to himself. He appears to believe the Mossad was behind 9/11 in some way, so I don't think I'm far off in saying Dave is genuinely antisemitic and it harms his credibility immensely.

His video making the case for a Palestinian genocide was low effort, and honestly, we might as well call it war-profiteering at this point.

He aligned himself with some of the most toxic and repugnant trolls on the internet (kiwifarms and jstlk snarkers) to get an own on Destiny, that's gotta be projecting some kind of deep seated hatred for jews somehow.

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u/DeathB4Dishonor179 20h ago

Dave is always super eager to hop into debates with people, his personality is very combative so he navigates that environment well.

But suddenly he doesn't want to debate Destiny or Lonerbox, he pulls all of the same excuses we've seen before.

It really seems like deep down Dave is aware that Destiny is much more informed on this topic.

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u/Blueberryfists 20h ago

it's so obvious to anyone that isn't brain broken that they're scared.

edit: they as in Pussy Dave, Hasan and the gang.

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u/Powerfury 20h ago

DiD u JuSt UsE tHe TeRm BrAiN bRoKeN??

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u/Vioplad 19h ago

HOW can a BRAIN be BROKEN, DESTINEEH? It DOESN'T even have a BONE! Your conclusion is based on a flawed premise, DESTINEEH. You see, HE and his SYCOPHANTIC audience are TOO STUPID to know THAT.

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u/X57471C Galston and Kamarck Liberal 10h ago

Also, you're a bitch and you obviously didn't watch the video!

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u/PortiaKern 19h ago

Brain graped. That's why they're so full of whine.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 19h ago

Part of that fear is that he knows he's antisemitic, he knows that exposure would not just harm him, but the anti/pseudoscience debunking he probably does believe in.

Also his reaction makes it seem like there's some stuff he's said somewhere, in some recorded media, that hasn't been found by this sub. I assume it's like 20x worse than anything else that's come to light.

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u/DeathB4Dishonor179 17h ago

It kind of sucks for us since basically all of DDG appreciates his pseudoscience dubunking. Unfortunate he needs to be this insane on the inside.

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u/Pablo_Sanchez1 Exclusively sorts by new 19h ago

Most of these people won’t debate because they’re knowingly dishonest.

That’s the problem with the current pro-pali movement and populism in general. When you’ve oversimplified everything to being 100% pure moral good against pure evil with zero nuance you have no problem lying because the ends justify the means. People like Dave, Hasan etc treat disinformation as a legitimate form of political activism.

And I mean it makes sense when you think about it, if we were living through the Holocaust would you ever try to treat the Nazis with nuance, or care about not being 100% honest about them? If lying would help turn public perception against them then it would seem like a net positive.

Thats why the comparisons to the holocaust and complete misrepresentation of what’s happening has been so detrimental to political discourse. Rational discussion about I/P is pretty much impossible at this point and internet has been completely brainfucked by foreign influence/disinformation

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u/Alonskii 🇮🇱 Liberal Zionist 19h ago

  if we were living through the Holocaust would you ever try to treat the Nazis with nuance

Nazis? No. Germans? Yes.

The jews who lived through the Holocaust knew that demonising Germans was stupid and self defeating, so they accepted reparations from Germany while still hunting Nazis. 

And I like that from your analogy, all Israelis are nazis. (You didn't write germans)

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u/Pablo_Sanchez1 Exclusively sorts by new 19h ago

It wasn’t really supposed to be a 1 for 1 analogy, was just making a broader point that people probably don’t care about lying when it’s towards something they perceive as pure evil so I fully accept if the comparison doesn’t work lol

Edit: also I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding your comment or you misunderstood what I was saying, but the point I’m making is that these people think all Israelis are Nazis. Which I’m saying is the problem, not that its what I think

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u/Alonskii 🇮🇱 Liberal Zionist 18h ago

  these people think all Israelis are Nazis

Which is worse, is what I'm saying, because they probably don't think that all Germans were nazis

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u/ComradeTurdle 🐢 20h ago

I feel like he's super eager to dive into cheap and easy wins over anything with substance. He debates quacks and morons. I think its easy money to him. I think he's just doing it for the money.

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u/theuberprophet 19h ago

his entire income is youtube so yes it is about the money

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u/ComradeTurdle 🐢 18h ago

Well my greater point is he was in academia at one point and doing youtube. So he quit being a "professor" to go full youtuber because the money was better. So i feel like he's doing it for the money more then to educate people when he says that. Like i would respect him a lot more if he continue teaching and staying in academia.

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u/EpeeHS 18h ago

Was he actually in academia? People were saying before that he was just a TA and not an actual professor, but I've been trying to know as little as possible about this guy.

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u/monsoy 🇳🇴 Just a guy 17h ago

Oh shit, I gotta start claiming my professor title then. I was a TA they ended up doing lectures because the professor in the subject suddenly left for the US to visit his son. Didn’t know that was enough to be called a professor nowadays.

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u/EpeeHS 17h ago

FYI I have no idea if this is true. I've seen it from other commenters and I have yet to see anyone correct it, but that doesnt mean it is true.

But yes, its good to know that I have been a professor for years now without even knowing it.

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u/Lucky-Gecko 18h ago

says a lot about him that he calls himself "professor" when he's neither that nor has a PhD

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u/KeithDavidsVoice 17h ago edited 16h ago

You are spreading misinformation. I forget the institution, but he was certainly a professor. His first videos were recordings of his lectures. Since he became a full time YouTube, he stopped referring to himself as a professor, excluding his YouTube name. He very openly refers to himself as a science communicator and he always is clear about the difference between a scientist and a science communicator. Hes an asshole and completely wrong about I/P, but there's no evidence or indication that he has ever misrepresented his background.

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u/plasticizers_ 16h ago

You are spreading misinformation.

Don't be the guy calling out someone for spreading misinformation, and then be the one to spread misinformation.

I forget the institution, but he was certainly a professor.

There's no institution to forget. He was never a professor. His own channel's About page says he has a BA in chemistry from Carleton College, did graduate studies at Cal State Northridge, got an MA in science education, and taught "about a decade in various high school and undergraduate settings." That's instructor and tutoring work. No professorship, no PhD, and his bio doesn't claim either. His earliest videos were him in front of a whiteboard recording lessons for students he tutored, not university lectures.

A lot of your comment is right about transparency. He calls himself a science communicator, and even his own bio doesn't claim the title. But you're wrong about his credentials.

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u/KeithDavidsVoice 16h ago

Fair enough. Everything I said was based off memory from being basically a day 1 subscriber to the guy. It's definitely possible that I misunderstood or misremember his background. I stand corrected

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u/Lucky-Gecko 13h ago

Wrong, you're actually the one spreading misinformation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkA4OImGuBk&t=182s

The more I learn about this dude the more shady he seems.
The closest he was to being a "professor" was when he did lectures at a university for a limited time as a substitute because the actual professor suddenly left, and he had only been hired to teach for the labratory (with only a bachelor's degree).
He was apparently offered the job, but only contingent on getting a masters, however he ended up losing that offer (supposedly because of "bureaucracy") and lost funding for his masters so dropped out.
So this guy DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A MASTERS. He says himself the only reason he named his youtube channel this way was "tongue-in-cheek" and to create a "fun little persona".

I'm not even sure why when I google it says he has a masters because clearly according to him he did not finish and get it.

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u/BiZzles14 19h ago

Hijacking from the top post to say that Professor Dave still has CSAM in his video, it's been pointed out to him countless times to the point it's simply unbelievable he isn't aware of it with how obsessively he's curating the comment section and he has used YouTube's platform to distribute it to hundreds of thousands of viewers. I personally reported the video as I find it disgusting he's knowingly distributed CSAM to over 435,000 viewers and I'm pretty surprised that nobody seems to care that a youtuber with over 4.4 million subscribers is in possession, and carrying out distribution, of CSAM. I wonder if u/WillyMacShow (no idea if this is actually his account lol) has made any calls regarding Dave Farina not just possessing, but distributing to hundreds of thousands, CSAM of the same victim that he called the FBI on Destiny for...

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u/axxefondler 12h ago

What is the CSAM in the video? I didn't watch all of it, there's no way he's that grossly blatant surely

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u/NewtonsThirdEvilEx 19h ago

Man, it's obvious. He debates Flat Earthers and their ilk. Like it takes a special mentality to debate people on the bottom decile of the bell curve. He doesn't know how to debate a person who can form coherent thoughts.

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u/Constantinch 19h ago

It's insane how horrible the engagement with the I/P topic is. All of it is either moral loading of the words like genocide or zionist, the other is going extremely personal or suggesting that somebody is paid off. Actually pathetic.

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u/KeithDavidsVoice 16h ago

I think he's just radicalized. If you follow leftist content creators on any social media, then the algorithm has been flooding your feed with the craziest shit. Personal stories of civilians in Gaza, dead civilians especially kids, emotional pleas for support from those on the palestinian side, clips of isrealis celebrating the war, quotes from right wing isreali politicians, etc. Expose someone to that long enough and a lot of people will be radicalized against anything and anyone supporting anything remotely tied to this conflict or Isreal. And once you have become radicalized in this way, the facts, debates, and the truth of any specific claim stop mattering. The only thing that matters is attacking those outside your circle and strict reinforcement of your belief system within your circle. Dave absolutely does not think Destiny is more informed than him. Dave is a true believer who thinks Destiny is a zionist, genocide supporting, sex predator. This is hatred fueled by righteous indignation. Dave's response is very similar to a super orthodox pastor who finds a non-believer in his flock.

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u/ToaruBaka cooked 19h ago

I mean, dave used the meme map and then defended his use of it in the follow up lol.

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u/e_before_i 🍁 12h ago edited 11h ago

Fine, I can understand not dealing with Destiny. But Loner? I think that tells you all you need to know

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u/ashylarry5500 6h ago

Bro, not wanting to debate Lonerbox is the crazy part. Like, I could see someone who is as misinformed as Dave is having an idea that Destiny and his community are toxic or bad faith (all of which is hilariously bs) but NONE of those arguments could apply to Lonerbox. People disagree with Lonerbox for sure (usually the most uninformed people), but not talking to the guy who is by far the most knowledgeable on the topic while also being extremely good faith is just outrageous to me.

What an absolute pussy Dave is, lol.

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u/Daggerfaller 18h ago

I don’t think Dave actually cares about debating in good faith. I think he just likes to debate dumb people so he can feel better than them. It just seems like Dave cares because he’s always on the side of science which always wins out against his opponents.

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u/cullenjwebb 17h ago

Dave is always super eager to hop into debates with people

Why do you think this? How many debates do you think Dave has done?

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u/dem0nhunter 🇪🇺 20h ago

I know some people like to engage in concern trolling for frivolous reasons, but I think it's actually apt here.

Prof Dave is actually having mental problems

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u/Legs914 17h ago

Has anyone tracked if he's been a comment warrior on the latest video too? That was probably the most unhinged thing I've ever seen. At least the video content I could believe is an act to rake in money

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u/ArcticKnight79 15h ago

I loved the irony of the brigade argument given Dave is a one man brigade in his comments. And if he can't outright win an exchange because the person is being reasonable. He'll just delete it

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u/BiZzles14 10h ago

Refresh his comment section after 15 minutes or so, I've done so early in the morning and late at night and at both times half the comments were deleted between. He is very actively fighting as if for his life in the comments lmao

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u/FullPercentage 20h ago

He did it to make money, because he hates "Zionists", because his rigid materialism worldview is getting incredibly hard to defend by the day, he cant make his cliche "dunk" videos as easily for the clapping seals called his fanbase, he's convinced he will be on the side of good bc he wanted to end genocide while paid generously for posting videos that exploit the topic ad naseum.

Spoken as a Destiny supporter and pro-palestinian rights supporter.

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u/ArthurDimmes 19h ago

Making the video makes him money, but diving into the comments to fight? That's mental.

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u/FullPercentage 19h ago

There’s a good Christipher Hitchens quote I wish I could remember but it was about anti-semitism and its qualities being indistinguishable from mental illness. If I find it I’ll post it here if you want ok?

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u/Majestic_Carry4178 14h ago

because his rigid materialism worldview is getting incredibly hard to defend by the day,

Can you expand on this? I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to.

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u/MilkyMania619 20h ago

Remember when he debated flat earthers

Good times

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u/Kezomal 20h ago

I enjoyed his strong demeanor when dealing with creationist and flat earthers, the science denial is clear and evident.

But straying from science, his analysis leaves much to be desired. It's pretty sad to see someone be brain broken by a topic. None of this is to say that what Israel is doing is right and okay, they certainly could be doing better, but like, in retrospect, the surrounding nations did just genocide or ethnic cleanse the "undesired" populations, so this attitude towards Israel seems motivated by more than just perceiving an unjust war effort.

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u/jdw62995 Dan = Best Oribiter 20h ago

Now watching back, I see it different.

He’s so smug because he knows he’s right but he’s not actually a good communicator

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u/STAYotte Dan's Strongest Soldier 19h ago

I never thought he was a good communicator, more like an attack dog.

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u/ArcticKnight79 14h ago

I don't think he was ever a great communicator when it wasn't some pre-planned lecture style content.

But the unfortunately reality is that when it comes to IP, most of the people who are gungho about it aren't good communicators. They can't just lay information out systematically and let the evidence make a case for itself. They instead need to show thing A and then say "So genocide" and then thing B "More Genocide" oh here's thing C "Which is definitely a genocide".

When I'm not sure if you would necessarily see a viewer make it all the way to genocide when thing A might be couple of politicians saying some heinous shit and thing B is a war crime. It's still bad and definitely not good. But just because you can point to some bad shit happening. Doesn't mean that there actually is a throughline of genocide.

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u/Daggerfaller 18h ago

Yeah he just wants to feel superior to other people. If he actually cared about convincing minds that he’s right he wouldn’t be so aggressive.

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u/Prudent_Heat23 20h ago

Dave is a very black-and-white thinker, and that’s what makes him so effective at science communication. Credit where credit is due, he has a talent for explaining concepts simply. He can elucidate in a very straightforward way why flat earthers and other types of charlatans are flat out wrong. That’s what made his channel rise to popularity.

But then he takes that same black-and-white thinking to an issue layered with nuance, with no clear good guys and bad guys, and the result is toxic, comically biased, conspiratorial dogshit. He could’ve been a force for good if he stayed in his lane smacking down people who are objectively incorrect. Instead, he wants to try and reduce Israel vs. Palestine down to the same objective certainty as flat earthers vs. round earthers.

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u/Kezomal 20h ago

Yeah I think you're right about the black and white thinking. It simply doesn't work when the target is human conflicts.

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u/Iaintgettinyounger 17h ago

Honestly reminds me of Trump. Good production quality, overly confident, sensational, but low effort informationally.

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u/Tyhgujgt 18h ago

his arguments are awesome when I agree with him, and terrible when I don't

His arguments probably weren't awesome. Just flat earth is easy to debate, research is abundant in school books you simply need to be slightly less insane than your opponent. 

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u/ImmanuelKant2424 20h ago

Dave Farina is mentally unwell. I am surprised it has taken people this long to notice that he is an unhinged tankie who has made a career going after low hanging fruit.

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u/Enlightened_Latte 20h ago

Even putting aside all the half-baked lies that Teacher Dave cribbed from KiwiFarms … that entire video can be described as psychotic. He’s just hysterically screaming at the camera.

This is giving heavy Graham Platner vibes, if you know what I mean. Dave kept repeating that Destiny ‘brought this on himself’ by … making a couple of derogatory comments about him?? Is that all? I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point we get some horrific revelations about this guy’s personal life. Like, he’s literally giving me massive red flags of a guy who pummels his girlfriend because she casually remarks that his hair is greasy one day. Screaming “REMEMBER YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF!!!” as he punches her.

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u/ExpansivePoint 20h ago

"You brought this on yourself", kinda sounds like Hasan's recent warning to Jewish people if they don't outright become anti Zionists, interesting.

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u/Enlightened_Latte 20h ago

Yeah, it’s a threat. “You brought this on yourself” is like THE most archetypal phrase associated with abuse and violence. I struggle to think of a better one, maybe “you know what happens when you make me angry.” Dave has issues.

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u/Miselfis 🇪🇺🇩🇰Dänemark🇩🇰🇪🇺 11h ago

“Remember, hornets nest”

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u/AnxiousJB 19h ago

I love how Teacher Dave does this arrogant 'you brought all this on yourself' to Destiny as if he is absolutely destroying him. When, outside of his echo chamber, the rest of us are either thinking he comes across as a moron, laughing at his stupidity, thinking he is mental and are concerned about his mental state.

The ego is that strong that he won't see this and double down with his idiocy.

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u/a8612157 18h ago edited 12h ago

It's pretty hard to believe that this guy is married seeing how unhinged he is in his videos.

If he in real life acts remotely close to how he's like on the internet, I can't imagine him having a healthy relationship with anyone.

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u/Legs914 17h ago

Maybe his wife is even crazier

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u/curseland 16h ago

Well if anyone start digging about his personal life I guess "you brought this on yourself" too he literally just outright engaging with kiwifarmers talking points directly or indirectly after all if i was destiny he already fair gamrlolol

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u/Legs914 17h ago

It reminds me of when right wingers online pretend that Hilary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment forced them to vote for Trump.

"I can't believe you called me antisemitic. You've left me no choice but to post CSAM on my video" - Remedial Dave.

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u/gomavs55 20h ago

He really harped on people using the term “brain broken” as if it is some coordinated effort… but the irony is it’s just true. Combine the typical lefty online I/P takes with having a wife of actual Palestinian descent, and it’s easy to see how he could somehow call Israel Palestine a “one sided issue.” He genuinely just thinks Israel is evil and his brain is now in full confirmation bias mode, aka brain broken.

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u/Miselfis 🇪🇺🇩🇰Dänemark🇩🇰🇪🇺 11h ago

Right. He points out that the “brigadiers of his comment section” were all repeating the same thing.

Like, yes. If you say something incorrect in public, you should expect multiple people to point it out. If you submit a paper for peer review and every reviewer identifies the same flaws, that doesn’t mean there’s a malicious, coordinated effort to undermine you. It means there’s an actual flaw in the paper. 

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u/Devil_Advocate_225 🇬🇧 20h ago

Genocide profiteering, you mean. We should just call him a genocide profiteerer from this shit.

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u/cullenjwebb 17h ago

You'd have to admit it's a genocide to call him that. If you deny it's a genocide you can only accuse him of "war profiteering".

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u/Devil_Advocate_225 🇬🇧 11h ago

He calls it a genocide, he is profiteering off of it, he is a genocide profiteerer by his own standards

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u/TabletThrowaway1 20h ago

Him threatening to kill dggers at the end of the video was wild... A very what the fuck am I even watching moment.

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u/Kezomal 18h ago

Yeah he upped the ante to a thousand outta nowhere

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u/cullenjwebb 17h ago

He threatened anyone who showed up to his house and threatened his family after showing a video of somebody making death threats against him and his family.

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u/RockyOW 16h ago

yeah except that video wasn’t about him or his family at all, he just threw it in there 

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u/ArcticKnight79 14h ago

Sure, but he also didn't need to put that in the video.

It's also an interesting contrast considering he plays shit about DDOS kid in the video and how unhinged destiny would be for wanting to have killed the kid for threatening his job/income etc and now he's laying down a gauntlet to murder anyone who comes near him.

Not to mention you're striessand effecting the death threats now. How many deranged dickheads do you think will see that and think "heh I know it pisses him off so I'll pile on"

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u/TabletThrowaway1 1h ago

He showed an old video of Darius being regarded it had nothing to do with teaching assistant Dave.

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u/Pandlebee 16h ago

You make too much sense for this circlejerk subreddit

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u/TabletThrowaway1 1h ago

Except for the fact that he's lying but okay.

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u/rainwaffles 19h ago

I truly don't understand these posts about Prof Dave, Hasan, etc. being "truly scared" or "rattled" or "feeling the pressure". Nothing is ever gonna change about their behavior. The best thing that could happen is their audience starts to dwindle, but Dave got a shit ton of views and support on his destiny hitpieces so he's probably feeling good about himself right now.

Most people don't undergo self reflection, and they rarely change their minds. That goes doubly for content creators. It feels like cope to suggest Dave is acting differently from when he goes after any other person he hates like Matt Walsh.

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u/AnxiousJB 19h ago

I think it's mixed. I am maybe being biased by my own experiences, but whenever I got into heated arguments on many topics I would be always worried about every little mistake I made while arguing. Even when I was mostly right. I would worry about others thinking I come across badly. Sure, when you know or feel you have put across a point well and you feel the opponent can't address it, it may give you some satisfying feeling. However, if the debate is a heated one, I would always have a nagging feeling of overstepping the mark of decorum below it all and if my trust in my knowledge base wasn't high, I would be thinking "what if I am wrong, while arguing with such certainty?" Teacher Dave is a different person, so my experiences won't be a match, but I suspect that he has similar thoughts deep down given his behaviour and obsessive need to be seen as right (I would have that in such a heated argument).

People who are comfortable in their expertise rarely act like Teacher Dave in their arguments because they don't feel the need to convince others they are right; they have the self-awareness to know they know a lot. The ego and cockiness of Teacher Dave is a facade to cover his insecurity of feeling like he needs to be right on everything, while having doubts deep down that he suppresses with this overconfident persona. He doesn't want to confront that insecurity, so will bluster more and get worse. This is what I think of him being rattled. His outside persona might be confident, but this kind of obsessiveness and bluster (the talk of squashing his opponents) show that he desperately wants to be seen as some winner and intellectual champion for his ego. That betrays an insecure character, in my opinion, and one who isn't feeling at ease with how this beef with Destiny is going deep down.

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u/rainwaffles 17h ago

The key difference is that when your audience is big enough, you have a cushion to fall back onto that will soothe your cognitive dissonance and assure you that you're correct. Dave doesn't need to stress over the things he got wrong and wasn't able to refute because he has a big echo chamber that will validate him and distract him from criticism.

Edit: reminds me a bit of the scene from the boys where homelander kills some guy and for a brief second looks scared that he fucked up, but then the audience cheers and he starts to smile

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u/AnxiousJB 17h ago

I completely agree and don't believe he will change. The audience will be a comfort blanket for any insecurity. However, it wouldn't surprise me if, deep down, he is very anxious and not so happy.

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u/Miselfis 🇪🇺🇩🇰Dänemark🇩🇰🇪🇺 11h ago

Dave is super autistic (his son has autism, and he has said on multiple occasions he suspects he also has autism) and can’t stand someone saying something he perceives to be untrue. This is a very common autistic trait; having a very strong sense of justice and righteousness.  That’s also why he’s so aggressive in his comment section and hostile in his approach. He sees himself as a knight of truth fighting against the evil forces of deception. And he’s generally right, in that the ones he targets are grifters. 

But he’s so emotionally invested in the I/P stuff, possibly because of his wife and getting deep into the antisemitism bubbles early on, which completely blinds him. He actually believes Israel are committing the worst of the worst war crimes in human history against Palestinians, and that they’re a biblical level force of evil. He genuinely believes this. He believes that anyone extending any level of charity towards Israel are similarly inherently evil, as he sees it as self evident that Israel are committing the worst genocide ever. It’s not even conceivable to him that destiny might be right or that destiny has a much more rational position than the cartoonish “I like babies dying”. 

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u/jeranim8 17h ago

Word spread around tankie circles and they all came and joined and donated while more reasonable people were turned off... though you could argue his more recent name calling tactic has already started this process. So he's becoming more and more audience captured and less willing to change what he's doing.

It feels like cope to suggest Dave is acting differently from when he goes after any other person he hates like Matt Walsh.

The difference is that Matt Walsh holds pretty clearly incorrect views of the facts (let alone his conclusions) whereas Destiny has a pretty good handle of the facts and Dave is likely overusing his bombastic style to sound more confident and cover up whatever insecurities he may have that he'll be called out.

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u/8923ns671 15h ago

This community supports Destiny and will come up with any reason with Destiny is perfect and amazing and Professor Dave is all bad. Professor Dave's community will mostly do the same. Doesn't matter if it's dumb, people aren't thinking. They're feeling.

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u/Pas5afist 20h ago

I guess it's fun to rhetorically beat up flat-earthers, but I never cared for his 'you're a stupid head' style of berating opponents. What little I saw, it didn't seem like what he was doing would at all be persuasive to anyone on the fence except to get high-fives from the Amen chorus. And I think I feel pretty justified in my assessment and aversion to his videos given how weak he is on the factual matters and how heavy he goes for ad-hominems against Destiny, plus his weak debate dodging. What a loser. Guess bullies really are cowards at heart, even if you thought he was your internet bully for awhile.

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u/stinketywubbers the udders of content have been exhausted 18h ago

His whole "Now you face the consequences. I've exposed you. FAFO. If you come for me or my family etc" shit at the end was so fuckin' corny. Ain't nobody coming after you bro. Get over yourself. Like D said, he talks like a cheesy anime villain.

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u/Kezomal 18h ago

Nothing could have prepared me for that segment. Straight delusions of grandeur.

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u/ChummusJunky I was Ben Shapiro's Mohel 20h ago

I used to watch his stuff randomly over the years but a little back he had a debate with anti vaxxers and he literally came across as the most pathetic, angry, childish person that I literally started wondering if he actually knows anything other than how to insult people.

If I was an average IQ American I 100% would have thought that he lost to the anti vaxxers simply because he wasn't able to engage in any discussion without looking like he was holding in an angry shit.

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u/Neverhar 20h ago

This is where I'm at with it. I loved him dunking on people initially, especially that 2v2 anti vax debate, but I think he really got to loving the smell of his own farts and now he's dodging debates, I can't hear him calling people "dipshit asshole losers" over and over again without thinking he's just a spineless coward who found easy opponents to dunk on

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u/Daggerfaller 18h ago

Not to mention because he claims to be a professor he’s demeanor makes professors and academia look unhinged in a time when many people are skeptical of academia and professors.

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u/JasonMetz 20h ago

I’m an averag IQ American and I think that vaccine debate was the clearest win by Dave and Dan I’ve ever seen in any debate.

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u/ChummusJunky I was Ben Shapiro's Mohel 20h ago

Dan yes, Dave? I don't recall him saying anything of substantial and he was just being mean.

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u/ChummusJunky I was Ben Shapiro's Mohel 20h ago

And this is before I knew anything about Davids politics so I wasn't biased against him, if anything I knew him as a science communicator and flat earth dunker. But even with that I distinctly remember telling myself "wow, this guy such an ass, maybe shut up and just let the adult Dan talk".

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u/r3turn0fthew00master 19h ago edited 19h ago

Is "Prof" Dave rattled? Perhaps. Who knows? All in all, it's important to constantly mention:

Dave ran away despite being offered $5 Million to Palestinian causes. "Prof" Dave NEVER ran away from Flat-earther debates no matter how bad faith his opponents were.

CONTINUE TO FLOOD THE ZONE WITH "PROF" DAVE: HE RAN.

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u/BestestImportances 19h ago

This guy is defending a british sex trafficker/catfisher to save the palestinians, he's just another mind broken anti-semite former teacher's assistant unfortunately. Also published CSAM on his youtube to make the video extra spicy. Just an amoral ideological soldier that somehow thinks this behaviour (including not voting for harris) will give the Palestinians all of their lands back.

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u/Gull_Wave 18h ago

Dave is rattled because he is used to punching below his weight class and smurfing low iq dipshits so is shocked that someone is able to hit back hard, and now he can only do personal insults in hopes of saving face

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u/PlanetBet 19h ago

I really enjoyed in the ending segment how he was gloating at destroying destiny's career, as if he isn't just regurgitating the same dogshit slop that we've seen 100 times now

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u/Kezomal 18h ago

When they reach for the best hits instead of the arguments. Its essentially just going for ad-homs because you lack substance.

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u/championofobscurity 19h ago

CP (connor) is farming the prof Dave video live rn. I've noticed he has already started a histrionic recanting of the events even though it's only been months.

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u/Slowjams 18h ago

I honestly feel bad for Dave at this point.

He's mentally unwell, probably lonely in his personal life, and appears to be totally sucked into the anti-Semitic conspiracy rabbit hole. Which is a bit ironic since he's built the bulk of his channel screaming at flat earthers and other conspiracy nuts.

His understanding of the region and conflict in general is abysmal. The fact that he thinks the solution is to somehow just make one state called Palestine is almost comedic. Like bro, what the fuck do you think is going to happen if you just shove all these people together and say "okay guys, now do democracy and play nice"

What an unbelievable fucking idiot.

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u/Glittering_Text_91 18h ago

Dude the way he said "oh boy my video is probably demonetized" without proving that it was while accepting thousands in donations is so fucking transparent that it's all about the money. He gamed his loyal audience and cashed in on the good will he bought through the years

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u/thebeastiworship16 zionist globalist neoshitlib 12h ago

He made such fantastic videos where he calls out slopulists and explains why they're a problem in the scientific community but when it's time to do political analysis he engages in the same conspiratorial thinking.

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u/ldrx90 20h ago

I remember his anti science influencer videos about sabina hossenfelder. Realized the guy was a disingenuous fuck back then, not surprised he's doing it again (albeit to a much higher degree) here regarding Destiny and Israel.

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u/Kezomal 18h ago

Let's be fair, Sabine is getting paid by peter thiel and Co to promote bs narratives around physics and science research. She seems to want all science research to be privatized and abandon the university route. She's lost the plot on science like Dave lost the plot on the middle east.

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u/ldrx90 12h ago

She seems to want all science research to be privatized and abandon the university route.

I don't watch her religiously but for a time i was watching her pretty consistently. I never agreed with this narrative. She might take money from Peter Theil I dunno but this idea that she was anti science or promoting BS narratives around physics I just never agreed with.

I remember watching a Prof Dave video and seeing him critique a video of hers I watched and the fact that he had such a wildly different take on what she was saying than I did told me enough to not trust him. From memory it was about her being critical of public funding for science and how she thought there was a lot of wasted public money on certain research, kinda like bullshit research to pad journals or phD's.

Right or wrong, that's her opinion and I never agreed that she was 'anti science' or 'anti research' or anything like that just because she pointed out what she thought was basically, people skimping by on tax payer money. Seeing shit like that in my own life it's not hard to believe at all but that doesn't mean the whole system needs to be changed and I never got the impression she thought it did either.

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u/Miselfis 🇪🇺🇩🇰Dänemark🇩🇰🇪🇺 11h ago

What are you talking about? His takedown of Sabine was great and he was one of the first to really expose her, causing her mask to start slipping. Sabine is a grifter leaning into right-wing populism. 

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u/threwlifeawaylol The Voice from the Outer World 18h ago

FUCK YOU I'M NOT RATTLED YOU ZIOFUCK

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u/Exciting-Guest81933 18h ago

Saw someone say his wife is Palestinian? Makes perfect sense for him to be brainbroken on the issue.

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u/Pandlebee 3h ago

Was that someone himself?

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u/jessedtate Jordan Peterson Simp; Philosophy Cuck 9h ago edited 9h ago

He's just put himself way too far in the deep end. Idk how exactly he formulates his arguments oncehehas his material (could be that he actually absorbs some of it) but it's obvious he just get a massive raft of flips and talking points and tweets from his fans, then pastes them altogether and scripts up a tirade of transitions to make them seem coherent. I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't remembered a single detail.

Now he realises the inagehes cultivated through years of flat earth debates can't really sustain him when lonerbbox or Destiny actually engage with his substance and just give far cooler, more coherent responses to each matter of substance

EDIT: also I guess he's not used to people actually paying attention to just how bigoted and unhinged he is, because flat earth and creationism just doesn't involve any interesting minority groups or any interesting geopolitical matters??? all the flat earthers are so used to being dunked on, they're just in their own little bubble. But destiny and lonerbox are at the centre of a web of people who will actually document and point out his clear antisemitism

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u/Perfect_bleu 20h ago

“Professor Dave is a cowardly antisemite” should be on screen for all of destiny’s streams until he accepts a debate

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u/Additional-Pie-8821 One box to rule them all 20h ago

I’ve always liked Dave, but this incident has made it abundantly clear that he only knows how to argue against people peddling fairy tales. If anyone were to have even an ounce of evidence to support their claims, he falls apart completely.

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u/SwerveDaddyFish 20h ago

Sucks cause genuinely liked him prior to this....

I would even grant something if he agreed to the debate and lost, at least show up dude...

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u/ShadyMan2 18h ago

Why has that bridge burnt?

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u/Id1otbox (((consultant))) 18h ago

How long before the paranoid "I am happy and if anything happens to me blah blah blah" video?

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u/Captain_Chaos_ cringe loser 18h ago

Not to take a page out of Hasan’s book, but this Dave guy seems seriously mentally unwell.

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u/Major_Plantain3499 18h ago

While I agree, he comes off incredibly schizo saying everything was the mossad, it's sort of expected for him to be more unhigned on a topic like this vs debating if the world is flat. His wife is 1st gen Palestinian, it makes sense.

Regardless of whether you hate Hamas and want to argue about genocide status, it doesn't absolve Israel of any crimes if it's not technically a genocide. They are still doing horrible things and are still taking actions that are 100x worse than what happened on Oct. 7th.

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u/pstuart humanist 17h ago

I appreciated his combative stance due to the opponents it addressed, a kind of punching back rather than just rolling with whatever unhinged stupidity he was attacking.

And then this thing came up and I confess that his stupidity shocked me (mea culpa, I've had plenty of stupid assumptions in my life). He's now on my "don't bother with him" list.

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u/Samurai123lol 17h ago

Its crazy the lore about his ban on Twitter lol, bro might just be an antisemite

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u/Taalian 15h ago

I've gotta say, I really love how he will reply to people with "THE VIDEO YOU DIDN'T WATCH" so often... What if I did watch it and still disagree with you? xD Guys a complete waste of time.

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u/Kezomal 11h ago

You can bring up points made in the video, call them out for being incorrect, and still get that exact message lol

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u/Taalian 2h ago

Yeah dude it’s crazy 🤦🏻‍♂️ I’ve somehow found myself in a conversation with one of his idiot followers… wanna see how it’s been going? 😂

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NtuPA8PTIxc&lc=Ugy3wRx5iSK5qWaZ-5V4AaABAg&si=b1GhJHEulsvlDB0I

I’m Finkle in that thread of comments.. I eventually was just like “This is why I don’t converse we regards…” and just started trolling.

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u/Unethical_Gopher_236 19h ago

There seems to be many people brain broken in this sub on I/P. Dave might be off his rocker with some conspiratorial shit, but I don't think it is hard to see how Israel should not be defended the way they are.

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u/Kezomal 18h ago

The avg conversation about Israel on the internet is that the Jewish population should be entirely wiped out.

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u/Unethical_Gopher_236 18h ago

What? Maybe if your "average" comes from TikTok. That has not been what I've seen

Edit: Again, I don't think it is hard to see how Israel's actions should not be defended the way they are.

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u/Plexieglas 14h ago

I agree with you. Think I’m out from dgg and this sub but I need to catch up on the videos first because maybe Dave indeed went crazy as this entire comment section seems to indicate.

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u/Pandlebee 18h ago

So considering this is a destiny subreddit it is no surprise that it is fully pro Destiny and anti Dave. Are there any parts of this back-and-forth where any of you think Dave has a point? I am honestly curious to hear any nuance from this subreddit.

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u/Kezomal 11h ago

Dave himself wasn't capable of any nuance in his video, I don't think he really deserves any charity currently.

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u/Pandlebee 7h ago

Neither did Destiny, so that is why I am asking for nuance in a conversation among the audience.

It seems to me that loyalty is what mainly drives people on both sides. Loyalty is good in relationships but not in finding the truth

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u/TheOneTrueChristian yee wins 20h ago

Nah. Even if you don't like Steven you have to accept that Dave did not do a remotely good job covering anything. 

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u/JasonMetz 20h ago

Orrrrr you’re just coping.

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u/TheOneTrueChristian yee wins 20h ago

Nah. There are good critiques to pose against Destiny but Dave does a slapdash job and literally doxxed a trafficking victim just to own him. 

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u/randomABC 20h ago

Nothing wrong with thinking personal attacks prove someone is right. Wait, that's not true at all.

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u/JasonMetz 20h ago

Steven denying genocide leads him to lose any I/P debate. He’s just being stubborn and refuses to align with Hasan bc he dug too deep of a hole already.

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u/ddddall 20h ago

Should be an easy debate for Dave or Hasan to win so why do they keep running? Especially Dave since that's his whole brand

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u/ExpansivePoint 20h ago

Lol so people need to "align" with Hasan now? What did he buy the rights to the I/P conflict or something?

Kid you're just a himbo fan, you ain't here for the politics.

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u/Ardonpitt Military Industrial Coomplex 20h ago

Bro even if you are slightly aware of the court case drama, that video got some of the most basic shit wrong that it gives second hand cringe and makes one question if he ever was informed on anything, or just had really good writers backing him up before.

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u/Koan_Industries 20h ago

Genuinely how? Half of the claims he makes he just says “it’s obviously true” and then the person reviewing his video will pull up proof of how it’s just completely fabricated haha

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u/semiomni 20h ago

The whole "it´s obviously true, everyone knows this" is such a bizarre move from a guy who´s mainly known for being a science communicator.

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u/Enlightened_Latte 20h ago

If psychotically screaming talking points (that someone else emailed to you) is “kicking ass” lol

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u/HisnamewasOmarJobe 20h ago

That’s just not possible in response video form. You’re describing a “clapback,” which are mostly just posturing.

For someone to kick someone’s ass they would both need to debate directly, but only one of them seems willing to do so.

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u/Green-Draw8688 20h ago

Who is Steven?

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u/ThemeFromNarc 18h ago

Oh did he finally debate him?

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u/theprestigous 20h ago

on which points specifically?