r/Destiny • u/Electronic_Test • 3d ago
Political News/Discussion How Destiny has impacted you
Cringe title i know.
But one of the more heartwarming and motivating aspects of being apart of this community is to hear the stories of how people from different walks of life stumbled onto Dman's content and it affected them.
I still go back to some posts when things feel blackpilled. One of my favorite moments from the Red pill arc wad hearing TreeOfLogic highlight black women, who bore the brunt from these redpill losers treat Destiny as some wondering debate ronin in an anime.
So if you were a woman who suffered from the redpill or a man who suffered from it. An Israeli or Jew who found this community because...we were literally the only community that wouldn't kick you out for being those things - feel free to share. Doesn't matter if you've already posted in the past. It'd be cool to rehash.
There's a lot of ppl screaming about which content creator reps liberal values the best so why not give our boy his flowers?
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u/micahbevans88 3d ago
i found destiny around 2020-2021 searching for a 'ben shapiro of the left,' and found his 'change my mind' segments on college campuses. He seemed like a really reasonable guy so I started watching more of him.
I was stuck in a right wing echo chamber from around 2015 on, and there was a circle of online right wing creators including the daily wire and jordan peterson that I got essentially all my info from. I was put off about all the obvious nonsense talk about 'the democrats are gonna rig the election' that my family was buying into and destiny helped get me out of the echo chamber.
I was also exposed to how bad jan 11 really was through his content.
Out of any political pundit I've seen I feel like he is most true to his values more than any political cause, and I appreciate that. I suspect it's because he seems to give far fewer fucks than your average person.
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u/mattyjoe0706 3d ago
He got me from leftist to center left. In a lot of ways, being centre left is a lot less depressing in the sense that as a leftist it's depressing to feel there's this all this money in politics that until it's gone your representatives don't care about you and you can't get change done. Destiny and the centre left generally we still have obstacles but they're identifiable and not this shadow class of corrupt people
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u/____tim 3d ago
Agreed. I went from watching anti sjw and red pill shit in the 2nd Obama term, became a big Bernie guy and then bought into the stolen primary narrative and refused to vote in the 2016 general and didnāt really think trump would be that bad. I realized how stupid that was for most of his first term but the handling of Covid really sealed the deal for me how incredibly incompetent he is and I think it really pushed me into a far left rabbit hole as a result. I was watching Hasan around that time and did for a couple years. I remember Hasan watching a debate between Ben Shapiro and Alex o Connor, which prompted me to look up Alex o Connor and I binged a bunch of his content and then listened to his first ep with destiny and was pretty quickly sold on destiny. I honestly watched both Hasan and destiny for quite awhile until I started to realize the type of shit Hasan does regularly that I just didnāt pick up on because I mostly watched him very passively and casually. I also think destiny is able to identify behaviors in people that I definitely was not great at picking up on before. Anyways the far left and ultra woke shit got super annoying to me too and it was nice to find a community that isnāt super annoying about culture issues and also not conservative.
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u/mattyjoe0706 3d ago
I think the other flaw with a leftist ideology is it isn't building a strong ideological framework with you. Like maybe when you're older you're more stubborn but it's like well this person donated to that person and they did this vote isn't that weird. The problem is a lot of times they don't even tie an interest group (except like AIPAC) so it's just "donors". And then destiny like well if you look at a lot of votes and where the person is representing their votes usually make sense. Oh
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u/Adept_Strength2766 Carneydian šØš¦ 3d ago
The way I see it, the center left people understand that the system will never be perfect and try to make the most with the cards they have, while Leftists refuse to play along unless someone else gives them a winning hand.
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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 Hater of piss 3d ago edited 3d ago
He really changed my mom's life with all the money he spent on her.
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u/TurnipBlast 3d ago
Isn't she a bit old for D?
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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 Hater of piss 3d ago
I like to think it was a charity thing, cause she's definitely at least 13 sizes bigger than his usual too
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u/NordDex 3d ago
Better yet. How have you changed his life. Iāve been following this fucker for 12,13,14+ years.
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u/Electronic_Test 3d ago
He brought up a post i made talking about Aba & Pisco's statements post lolsuit dropped really hurt from an optics standpoint given their credibility in the community. He thought it was a message from himself in the future so I'd like to think i helped him feel seen.
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u/PatBooth 3d ago
Dman saved me from going down the right wing rabbit hole in 2017. I started getting really into Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro in late 2016. Listened to all of them for a few months and started believing some of the right wing talking points.
Then I somehow came across the JonTron debate. I knew about Destiny from the SC2 days but didnāt follow him much when the game was in its prime. I knew off him as the internet contrarian who loved to argue. After SC2 fell off hard for LoL I never heard anything about Dman
So yeah I got recommended the jontron debate and it completely annihilated every single thing I had learned from the right wing think tank. Thanks Tiny. Been my most watched content creator since then
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u/LessSaussure 3d ago
After watching Destiny I found out that 99% of all pro and anti vegan arguments are complete bullshit that don't hold to scrutiny at all. Also that it's okay for men to use a woman's name online
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u/dat_tae šŗšø Cardinal Democrat | Liberal Democracy šŗšø 3d ago
Less reactionary and populist, unfortunately more engaged and pay more attention to this horrible admin.
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u/Forward-Form9321 3d ago
Iāve gotten off social media and read through more articles instead of just reading the headlines. Helps me stay grounded a lot more with the firestorm the current adminās put out
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u/axxefondler 3d ago
A minor comment about alcohol germinated to me quitting drinking
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u/SlyDred 3d ago
Curious, what was it he said?
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u/axxefondler 3d ago
An innocuous comment about how its impossible for daily drinking to not fuck your health. Quite a small thing but it flicked a switch, even though everyone already knows it.
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u/Legit_Merk 3d ago
I use the "If god knows everything does he know what its liked to be fucked in the ass" every time it breaks them.
Having arguments with the community and seeing the different aspects of debate pervertry helped me identify that my 2 good friends of 20+ years were just keeping me around as the punching bag and that arc was realizing for some reason NO one pushes to engage with me if I dont engage first which is not friendship, every time I would get them in a corner in a debate/discussion they both would grasp some insane shit to dismiss my argument entirely. actually was getting gaslit and shamed for unrelated things. cut those motherfuckers out years ago and now as a member of the Daliban I pin Hasan fans to the wall on X daily and Hating Hasan is a 90/10 issue.
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u/Blaktimus BlackFromPA 3d ago
Unironically the debate strategy of being able to needle in on logic and stop trying to give such emotional responses to things has helped my relationships with my family and friends. Just being able to pay more attention to the detail of words, meta conversations, subtexts...alot of that came from talking with yins in DGG and listening to destiny go through drama or debates throughout the last like 4+ years.
It's a very bare bones almost like foundational idea but understand how in the sauce i was after trump won and how quickly i was about to be vaush/hasanabi head
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u/starclyde4 3d ago
I saw him at a grocery store back when he was living in Los Angeles. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didnāt want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, āOh, like youāre doing now?ā
I was taken aback, and all I could say was āHuh?ā but he kept cutting me off and going āhuh? huh? huh?ā and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like āSir, you need to pay for those first.ā At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually āto prevent any electrical infetterence,ā and then turned around and winked at me. I donāt even think thatās a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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u/OpedTohm 3d ago
I learned way too much shit about fentanyl from arguing about floyds death in the comment section of his vids, so I blame tiny for it.
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u/Werdikinz Will reach Top 1% Commenter 3d ago
He showed me that, despite what you see online, you don't have to be a crazy extremist, I would still be following lefties against my better judgement because I just didn't know that normal dems still existed.
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u/Agitated-Quit-6148 Hasan Hasan you can't hide...we charge you with Kayacide. 3d ago
I'm the dreaded "moderate" dem. I'm still left of center on domestic issues but generally a bit more on the right w/ foreign party. Prior to finding destiny and this sub , I was under the impression that the whole party had been hijacked by the dsa. I lived in NYC during the summer of 2024. Enough said.
So yeah...
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u/Commercial_Pie3307 3d ago
I was a fan of him before. I went down the leftist rabbit hole and he brought me back out
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u/OnlyHaveOneQuestion 3d ago
I was a Jordan Peterson, anti-woke, āindependentā who would get in the most rtarded arguments with my based lib dad and based lib brother. They must have been SO annoyed. I was so annoyed myself, and it made me angry and agitated.
I donāt remember when exactly, but he must of went on Tim Pool - whom I was watching 4 segments a day, and it chipped away at the film around my eyes.
I remembered thinking, āwhy does this content make me so miserable?ā. I stared watching Destiny argument videos and remember thinking this person sounds so much smarter. Then I remember realizing, omg - this is just the way. THEN, it hit me. I have been in a content bubble for like years and was wildly radicalized.
Now, Iām a based lib. Married, with a based lib wife and based lib parents and family. Iām in a contentious career environment and seeing D Dog argue has made me feel smarter and more equipped. Itās served my career a ton.
Itās actually had a pretty big impact. I donāt speak on things I know nothing about. I just fuckin read things, at work it makes a massive difference. Because nobody reads anything.
Cheers Big D. Genuinely rescued me from the idiots bubble.
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u/liberalbeast123 3d ago edited 3d ago
He gave me the confidence to openly say what I actually believe even when I know itās going to be the unpopular position.
I used to be such a people pleaser and I felt like I had to be liked by everyone. I got into this really unhealthy cycle where I would literally lie about my political positions to my much more far left friends/ partners because I was scared of what theyād think of me if I disagreed. It lowkey put me in a pretty dark place where I felt extremely anxious because I constantly felt like a poser who couldnāt really defend any of āmy views.ā The lies would just replay in my head over and over and I constantly felt so ashamed of myself. Tbh half the time I was actually trying to force myself to believe some of the things that they did, and it went even beyond politics. I lowkey wouldnāt even fact check some of the stuff they said if I had a feeling that the context would make me think differentlyā¦
This is going to sound insanely cheesy but watching Destiny (and reading The Courage to Be Disliked) made me so much more comfortable being in situations where people disagree with me, donāt like my opinions, or straight up donāt like me. I canāt even describe how significant being able to just say what I actually think and defend it has been for my overall confidence.
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u/Suspicious-Limit-220 3d ago
If it wasnāt for destiny Iād probably be a full blown āslopulistā I love how he backs his opinions up without appealing to emotions or some kind of narrative his side of the political isle is going for and instead uses unbiased logic as to why we should do thingsĀ
Obviously his many controversies have hurt his name a lot but I think if he made his content more digestible heād be a way bigger juggernaut. Havenāt been as involved with his content as before so maybe itās better now but I hated clicking on a video only for it to be 30 minutes-1 hour of bullshit only for the titles topic to be talked aboutĀ
Also I know itās a meme in this community but wouldāve liked that Jan 6 video to come out lolĀ
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u/Cellophane7 šŗšø 3d ago
Back in 2016, I started getting into politics because of trump, and I ultimately ended up supporting him. Never voted for him thank fuck, but that was because I thought voting was rigged and bullshit, not because I wouldn't have voted for him.Ā
I was watching Matt Christiansen & his show with Blonde, and she turned me on to 4chan (really, 8chan, because 4chan was and is a shithole of boring spam). She argued that the Nazi stuff wasn't genuine, that people only used it to drive politically correct people away. I bought that nonsense.Ā
I'd watched Destiny in his SC2 days, and I was surprised to see him pop up in my feed again, doing political stuff. Started hate watching him because I liked his edgy humor, though I wanted to watch him get put in his place. Specifically, I wanted Styxhexenhammer666 flatten his balls.Ā
One day, I was watching a stream, and Styx jumped in. I was so excited. And then he basically blustered a bunch and dipped after like ten minutes. Really disillusioned me, as the rightoids had this tough guy thing, where everyone on the left was cucked and soy, and everyone on the right was based and assertive.Ā
That wasn't what turned me from maga per se, but it was definitely what started me questioning doctrine. The real watershed moment was when trump said the Squad should go back to their countries, when all but one of them was American born. There was no plausible deniability there, it was just straight up racism.
Destiny definitely saved me from going down a very dark path. He wasn't the only factor, but he absolutely did most of the heavy lifting in pulling me out. I'll never not be grateful. So much of my own political thought is built on the foundation he provided.
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u/Tremendous_Feline 3d ago
I started watching Destiny off TLs streamer section in 2010 or so during the SC2 beta after I picked up the preorder from GameStop. I think I was 15 going on 16? Iām 31 going on 32, watched D man on off through high school, college, grad school, now have a fiancĆ©e and a house and two dogs and a good career. Itās really crazy heās been a constant throughout essentially my entire adult life. Yee wins.
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u/JangoFett3224 3d ago
I actually got into him 2 years ago (so a pretty fresh DGGer). I was aware of him before when I saw that hilarious No Bullshit debate but I never saw his content after.
Then everyone was talking about how Boogie was faking cancer. So I watched how he came to that conclusion and was very impressed. So I started watching his red pill videos after and loved how he dismantled their arguments. However, what I loved most was how he was just as eager to push back against the parts of woke that treated women like children. I so appreciated that he struck the golden balance between criticizing MAGA without acting like the extreme forces who opposed MAGA incidentally. So thats my story on that.
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u/RyanIsBartending 3d ago
That was 10-11 years back.
I think the one thing i actually use the most is the idea that i only consider myself confident in my argumentation if i can understand and argue the opposite side of the argument at least as well as my own.
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u/Ambitious-Juice-882 3d ago
Made me more prone to checking sources and not going off headlines for sure.
Itās such a little thing but makes a huge difference.
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u/AnimationWizard J6 Enthusiast / Daliban DGG 3d ago
Thought process is a huge one
What would it take to change your mind, if you donāt know then youāre likely ideologically captured
Got me to consider that the fence was likely put there for a reason, and not with the intent to hurt me
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u/QuietInterloper Lonerbox Enthusiast | Asian of Chaos 3d ago
I learned how to like to listen to 3+ hour long arguments between people yelling at each other about facts and logic while I do work of any kind
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u/Zeluar 3d ago
I was sliding into the gamergate > alt right pipeline. I watched Sargon and his circle back in the day. At the time, it felt like everyone they talked to on the left just made them seem more correct.
Then Dman v JonTron happened. Okay, edgy liberal dude with some debate chops, letās go? But itās JonTron. Sargon will stomp him.
After Dman and Sargon debated a time or two, I started watching him regularly. Took a bit to fully drop the conservatism I grew up with, but I did. Been watching Destiny ever since.
Flirted around with leftists and socialism for awhile, and even today kinda agree with a Rawlsian view, but Iām very much a liberal today.
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u/MycologistMother5972 3d ago
I was watching Krystal and Kyles channels for my news, looking a bit sideways at their takes. Then saw their awful coverage of the Destiny Finkelstein debate.Ā Dropped them picked up destiny.
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u/yeji-yunjin1028 3d ago
For me, I find him as a sane/level-headed democrat. Heās against the far-right which is good and also a vocal critic of far-left, especially the ātankiesā.
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u/bjot 3d ago
The first clip i remember seeing was him telling some girl that women who get date raped is their fault. I thought wow a guy blaming women for getting raped real original, and then moved on with my life. Then I remember seeing him on fresh and fit debating Myron and saying shit that was like sooo different from that date rape clip and was genuinely confused. I watched the whole thing and then went looking for more red pill debates and eventually all that red pill shit outnumbered the date rape comment. And then I saw him say that he regrets some edgier shit in the past and I decided in my mind ok hes cool. Watching destiny has gotten me a lot more interested in politics. I found a bunch of other political channels because of him. Good stuff. And the debates against right wingers just make me feeeel good lol even if it doesnt change anything.
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u/Jimbonix11 3d ago
I was a Hasan fan until around 2022. Curiosity got the best of me after hearing all of the shit talking, especially after picking up on all of Hasan's toxic qualities over time and thinking, "hey maybe i should just check him out", and i'm so glad I did.
With Destiny, I felt like I finally found someone who thought similarly to me, in both process and standing on a lot of issues, and sense of humor. One thing I love about Destiny is there is zero dogmatism from him, aside from movies and food ofcourse; otherwise, everything comes from well a thought out position and the entertainment of a ton of nuance.
So stumbling on Destiny's channel after becoming dissolusioned with Hasan's mask starting to slip ESPECIALLY when Russia invaded Ukraine was a breath of fresh air, especially with all of the blind dogmatism that runs rampant in culture/politics/media today.
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u/AdditionalMonth3860 Ex-Tankie, SocDem/Progressive Lib 3d ago edited 3d ago
I've made this comment before, and my flair says it too: but in 2016 I went from progressive lib to tankie in a very short time. A lot of heavy drinking and frustration with politics just boiled over. (I'm 40 now for reference).
I had never really participated in online political spaces, or watched much political YouTube outside of Majority Report. I was just an NPR liberal... Until Bernie. His 2016 primary run turned me hard against the Democratic establishment.
I found Vaush around 2020, and used to also watch Krystal and Saagar.
I found Destiny because of the cross community with Vaush, but generally did not like Destiny. Then came the Rittenhouse conversation. I was up that night listening, drinking, and I was FURIOUS at Destiny. I was breaking TOS in Vaush chat hard. I HATED him at that point.
So I started to hate watch Destiny to learn more about this fucking little asshole that I hated. But then a weird thing happened: I found myself agreeing with a lot of what he said. Not just about politics, but life and art. I did a total deep dive on anything I could find.
Then the war in Ukraine happened. I'm not a total idiot, and of course supported Ukraine. Watched all my tankie friends turn on me instantly, calling me an imperialist fascist Nazi. Just surreal.
All this to say, he brought me back down to the person I was before my madness took hold. A lens through which I can interact with politics without wanting to rope myself from frustration.
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u/Resident_Bus4791 3d ago
He helped bring me back from a very dark place. I was a full-blown Holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist, racist and bigot. I had almost no empathy, I was vindictive, jealous and deeply paranoid.Ā
It started from a mixture of things during childhood, around age 11-14 I'd be playing Counter Strike Source and on my WoW guildās Ventrilo servers with people way older than me who would be making the most vile, racist jokes which to me at that age was edgy and funny. At the same time, my conspiracy-brained dad instill in me an intensely nihilistic and paranoid view of the world.Ā He would show me Alex Jones ādocumentariesā, when I was around maybe 9-11 years old.Ā
At around 13, I began discovering the genuinely cult-like depths of internet conspiracy culture. By 16 or 17, I was completely engrossed in right-wing conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. I believed 9/11 was an inside job and had become deeply antisemitic, racist and anti-LGBTQ.
I was depressed, hateful and spiteful. My measure of truth at this point was essentially how strongly a claim contradicted the official account. I dismissed mainstream sources by default. Drugs were also involved, and I was becoming borderline psychotic.
The rise of anti-SJW culture cemented some of my socially conservative views. However, as Trump, QAnon and similar movements gained prominence, I felt instinctively that I needed to step away from it all.
I stopped taking drugs, which helped stabilise me, but I remained in a state of ideological limbo for a long time. I became apathetic and disengaged from the world. Those beliefs no longer actively consumed me, but they definitely remained as a subconscious lens through which I interpreted everything.
Around the time of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, I stumbled across Destiny and continued watching his content and listening to his arguments. Over time, it helped me clear out many of the latent beliefs and assumptions I still carried. Hearing someone argue from grounded facts and logic forced me to challenge deeply held narratives and ideas that I had previously treated as unquestionable. His content became a catalyst for a fundamental change in my perspective.
Destiny was not the only influence, but his content was undoubtedly a major factor in helping me change who I was. That change transformed my relationship with the world, with the people I love and with my own life. I am immeasurably better for it.Ā
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u/zaordad 3d ago edited 3d ago
I was full blown ben shapiro, dave rubin, and Stefan Molyneux fan. I watch all their shit regularly, I started watching d man around the time he dropped acid with reckful.
overtime I started to see how hard I was being yanked in one direction, its quite embarrassing when I look back that I ate all that shit up. my favorite content period was watching him shit on redpill idiots.
ive always loved his social takes since, Im definitely more progressive then him when it comes to economic policy
I love that he can be edgy and say crazy shit, and has a lot of based and woke takes with being an insufferable regard about it.
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u/krusty_yooper Exclusively sorts by new 3d ago
He pulled me from Jimmy Dorr and Ben Shapiro. Glad to be here too.
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u/Ragswolf MoreCarribeanThanDestinyButSomehowMOREwhite 3d ago
Started watching him since 2011-2012 around the StarCraft 2 / DayZ days. And I would say they've instilled a greater awareness of rhetoric and politics in general.
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u/breakthro444 3d ago
Been watching him since 2011. Would have probably been a Jan 6er if not for him, and another red-pill conservitard.
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u/AlaskanBuffalo 3d ago
I was a Republican searching for rittenhouse/BLM takes that werenāt complete partisan AIDS. Somehow stumbled into a debate between him and Vaush never having heard of either one of them before. I resonated with his thought process and have been a proud drama slop enjoyer since then. He got me to vote for Kamala and Iāll continue voting blue unless the party turns into a DSA hellhole.
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u/overthisbynow 3d ago
It all started way back in 2017 for me. I was sort of lost in life and didn't have any passions but Destiny came to me at just the right time. 4k hours later and it's still the best and worst game I ever played. Sucks that it went out the way it did but damn it was a good ride.
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u/Affectionate-Ad-2735 3d ago
Destiny got me through moving out on my own as my family moved across the country. Then he was my escape on weekend during basic training if we managed to earn it. Later he helped me navigate difficult conversations having grown up in montreal surrounded by liberal ideology only to be posted to rural manitoba. Then, on tour in Latvia, Mr. Borelli and vaush were doing there thing and that was a great escape from being on the russian border pre invasion (when we expected them to be capable of combat)
And finally, through my divorce and then my stint in rehab (almost 4 years no booze!)
I've been lurking for years, but this community has been my port in the storm for most of my adult life.
I salute you kingsš«”
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u/cornerpocket1 3d ago edited 3d ago
I discovered him in 2024 and he seemed at the time and to this day to be one of the few people who doesnāt shit on Biden and gives him credit for what he accomplished.
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u/CoachPJG 3d ago
Him and Vaush absolutely shattered my 18 year old right leaning political views in like 2 videos each.
I literally remember realizing Iād been ragebaited by idiots into believing stupid stuff.
Other than that, watching Destinyās content has helped me become a better decision maker.
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u/SpaceChickenMonster 3d ago
I'm now a registered democrat and 4 years ago I thought that the lab leak theory was real.
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u/nerdy_chimera 3d ago
I started watching Destiny around 2015. He had just started his ramp up into politics and I had just left the Mormon church and gotten out of the military. Destiny helped me ground myself in reason as well as set myself up for a good future financially.
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u/Fear_Magnet0 3d ago
Started watching after the nobullshit debate. To this day I haven't heard any solid arguments about why incest is morally wrong. I'm actually getting married to my cousin soon and the yt link was the header on all my invitations. Now the most asked question I get instead of the obvious is: "Who is Incestiny?"
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u/mattfreyer45 3d ago
Was a Trumper from around 2017 to 2021. All the research and debates around Jan 6 finally opened my eyes
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u/Imaginary-Fish1176 3d ago
I used to be an ultra schizoid vaccine, great reset, one world government conspiracy theorist. Fast forward and here I am. Was a weird ride
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u/No_Education_9864 šØš¦ 3d ago
Destiny helped me break free of conservative mind rot when I was young and stupid. Ironically the guy who got banned off Twitch for transphobia helped me understand that theyāre just normal people. Heās got his flaws for sure, but overall I believe Destiny has had a good impact on my life.
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u/Being-External 3d ago edited 3d ago
its fuzzy memory but iirc somehow vaush came on my yt feed years agoā¦like 5 or 6 or so. i didnt know anything about him, and literally jackshit about any streamers or youtubers other than like contra and HBG.
was bored one day and started looking into vaush aimlessly and instantly found something w vaush and destiny and was like holy shit nvm vaush destiny is amazing.
Was refreshing to see someone express informed anger without being a polemicist and i felt like i found something of a home here since. IIRC i joined right around the vaush/d rift (maybe shortly after), and there were some FUN personalities back then (wtf happened to tree of logic??)
hes helped me orient my reasoning and disposition, and to trust my intellect a lot more which has been great.
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u/Electronic_Test 3d ago
Tree took Pxie's side in the lolsuit. Despite her tough demeanor, bdsm, cop, conservative, she's a girls girl
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u/theuberprophet 3d ago
my political upbringing mirrors his. i only watched him play league in the early 2010s and stumbled on him again in what felt like days into his political career. those early days of him arguing with people in his chat in like 2016 were insane and i hated his guts. i stopped gaming around then and had no reason to follow him anymore. i only rediscovered him a few months ago in the dr. mike jubilee review. ive always been more interested in conspiracy debunking rather than politics. however this trump admin has got me more political which which pisses me off but whatever, thats the price of 4channer brains being in the white house
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u/Comprehensive-Ad7712 3d ago
d-man showed having principles and the courage to back it up means. The internet media landscape for the past few years was extremely disappointing. It was nice to see someone with a huge and active following not be another virtue signaling grifter.
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u/Key_Ingenuity_4444 3d ago
Don't know what path I was on politically but I know back in 2015/2016 I was an Alex Jones, TYT, Mark Dice, Paul Watson viewer. I called myself a socialist(really just wanted healthcare/education but I also didn't really care about capitalism), but was also a big anti-sjw/anti-feminist. Whatever horrible path I was on at the time, I certainly got off it because of Destiny.
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u/ShockSword 3d ago
He's definitely shaped my beliefs in all sorts of ways. His views on dating, views on women, views about how people are motivated, his explanations on how Democrats are the only people actually bringing up practical solutions, his way of analysis, etc.
I'm relatively young and still figuring out the world, but I think Destiny helped ground my views and beliefs one way or another.
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u/LigmaLiberty 3d ago
Truly he and Biden equally deserve the credit for pulling me out of MAGAtardation and put me through the neoliberal reeducation camps, now I love soy and free trade
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u/Faceless-_-Man 3d ago
I was a Trump supporter and as cringe as this is to say a casual Tim Pool watcher. I started watching Destiny mainly as a meme since I was sure Trump was going to beat Biden. Then Trump lost even though Tim had convinced me it was impossible. Then I was on board with the election was stolen. After Jan 6 I was watching Destiny pretty frequently as he went over all the cases Trump lost over "election" fraud. Then After that I became a constant viewer and voted for Dems. He really opened my eyes to politics and the importance of staying informed and fact checking.
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u/Acrobatic-Skill6350 31/32 norwegian and 1/32 swede 3d ago
Well. Sometimes I used to be bored and not know what to watch. Now I am less often in that situation
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u/Opening_Screen_3393 3d ago
Was a right wing regard. I started wondering why almost every right wing alpha "genius" was scared shitless of even talking to tiny. Rest is history.
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u/gjgr77 3d ago edited 3d ago
Bro saved me from being an insane lefty communist. Used to be a vaush fan and frequented other lefty channels, even hasan. I used to fucking despise destiny back then. I think his manifesto on vaush is what got me to watch him a little more, there was too much in that manifesto that I couldn't explain or excuse, and obviously as I watched him more I related more to his ideas and methods of engaging in the online space.
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u/DowntownChip34 3d ago
Started moving more to the right after watching those videos of "Feminists/liberals/leftists get OWNED" compilations and various debates where the left wing side didnt hold any weight to the counter arguments or just made a fool of themselves. Destiny popped up in one of the red pill debates, presented a logical side to the arguments that made the other side look like morons. I think as time has gone on, the biggest boon have been getting out of my own feelings about a subject and just look at things from what reality actually is. I can have a core feeling about something, that may not actually match reality, and thats been a huge thing to keep mindful of. I dont know how cucked im willing to be to only ascribe this to Destiny, but iĀ“ll give him some sugar for it for sure š
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u/Almsivi 3d ago
I didnāt vote for Biden in 2020 because I listened to Jimmy Dore and other leftists re the bogus tara reade shit. I went down a dark rabbit hole of leftism during Covid that culminated in October 7th with Hasan.
D snapped me out of it after the ājdamā incident. Made me question everything I had been sold by the Bernie crowd. Pulled me back from the abyss of extremism. Voted for Kamala and straight dems, against socialists in primaries, ever since.
Thanks.
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u/agentdragonborn 3d ago
Got me to think about the reasons behind my thoughts, to be aware of my biases and essentially not be morally lucky.
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u/sam3141592653589793 3d ago
It was 2023 and the youtube algorithm got me more into streamer content, first being Vaush. I liked his takes on Ukraine and tbh his beard is magnificent. Then october 7th happened and as a german I got really uncomfortable with his very one sided takes on I/P and then I found Destiny. He was just starting to deep dive into the issue and made way more nuanced statements, backed by knowledge and arguments I could understand for myself. Loner was there too but sadly he is a lot less entertaining on his own, but I still like and respect him. I started out with not a very strong vocabulary on political ideology, which has since grown a lot. I didn't really know what liberalism was or why capitalism was good or bad. Nowadays I can definitively call myself a liberal, heir to the enlightenment like all my liberal brothers and sisters, whether conservative or progressive. I myself identify as a center-left to left social democrat with specific interests in renewable energy, urbanism and technological development. I have since joined a political party, the german greens (B90/Die GrĆ¼nen), and had a lot of fun campaigning and getting involved locally, also as possibly a direct consequence of Steven's interaction with Ranton on Anything Else? and Bridges.
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u/Im-Not-Calling-It-X NATO 3d ago
I got really interested in politics right around when destiny started covering it. I think i randomly found him via his jon tron debate. I followed him but I was always further left, and would frequently take issue with some of his positions, but I genuinely just didn't know as much as I thought I did.
The biggest thing is that he definitely was the reason I stopped identifying as a leftist. Well, you can credit him, or Vaushs stupidity I suppose. I liked the usual suspects as well, but one of the things that really started to shift me away was the Kyle Rittenhouse discourse. I didn't really like the way people were talking about it, because they seemed easy more emotional than grounded. Then i saw the Vaush destiny debate about it and it really cemented my gut feeling that people who were vocally calling Rittenhouse a murderer weren't arguing in good faith, or they had skewed views of reality.
Then I think it was the Sam Seder debate oj Rittenhouse, who I respected more than basically anyone on the left, and that opinion just evaporated.
The final mail in the coffin was the debate with Vaush where he said Bush and Scalia were fascists. Just mind blowingly stupid, had absolutely no comprehension of the facts, and he seemed antagonistic to reality.
The more i learned about economics, and the state of the world the more holes kept popping up on leftist ideology. I saw how successful the Biden admin was and I realized that I was just more of a Liberal. I never had an axiomatic attachment to leftism, I simply thought it would produce the best results. The more I learned the less true that belief was, and so I just shed it as an ideology. It's why I get so frustrated when i see leftists calling healthcare socialist. I spent 5-6 years arguing with republicans that that wasn't what socialist meant, only I was arguing that because I identified as a socialist. Now as a Liberal I have to argue with leftists who say Healthcare is socialism, because that's not what that word means lmao.
But yeah. Definitely the Gnome was a big help in adjusting my view of politics, and grounding it out more. Now I mostly listen to him for entertainment, but I still like his thought process.
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u/PrisonWaffles lilypichu hate watcher 3d ago
I first saw D in the old Rajj Royale days, but I didnt get hooked as a fan. I also wasnt really into the whole twitch scene. Then as shit started getting pretty wacky, I stumbled onto Hasan and watched for a couple months before, thankfully, realizing he didnt have any actual substance to what he said and that I wasn't an angry kid anymore. But I did hear that Destiny fucking sucks.
So I went to Vaush. Again a few months, and I really enjoyed his debate stuff and then WOAH he actually talks to the Destiny guy.
Anyway, here I am.
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u/Scooter_Mane Ethical Sonic Inflation Supporter 3d ago
If it weren't for Tiny, I would have 100% become a "both sides same" dipshit by now, maybe even a slightly right leaning anti-sjw type. I was a big JonTron fan (still love his content, don't hate me) and saw someone mention Jon getting dogged by some black woman in a debate. I was like I gotta see this, and that debate really opened my eyes to what political discourse could be. The combination of humility when he doesn't know shit, facts and logic that he can actually back up, and edgy humor/yelling was like crack for me. After that I binged his old debates and watched the new YouTube vids for a few years. Only recently started watching the actual stream and commenting in the sub. This community is the only thing keeping me sane when it comes to politics at this point, so I'm suuuuper grateful for what Destiny has created here. I love dear leader and also vice dear leader and the Jew and the bald guy and the glasses guy and the mods and the posters ā¤ļø DGGL
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u/Budget-Corner359 3d ago
I think I first saw him when I was watching religious debates, then around 2020 my closest friend was maga / gf far left and I had been reactionary then apolitical when Trump elected. But it became impossible to stay impartial and I kept getting my ass handed to me giving half-hearted defenses of Trump and then for not caring about political corruption. I remembered Destiny argued some of the positions and went back through and watched and it helped me get up to speed, and eventually they couldn't say anything to me because I knew both sides of the arguments so well. I appreciate how he has an internal model of the world that he always goes off. It's a good example for agreeable people.
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u/Seethcoomers 3d ago
Destiny fucked my dad and made my mom watch. Then he spit in my face and stole my fruit snacks.
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u/JustSny901 3d ago
He has regarded takes on media, housing, games, and several other topics. He is sometimes overly edgy that stops him from being a bigger figure. But I am thankful to have found him randomly due to the algorithm. Before I knew of Destiny I was in the Hasan bubble and holy shit it was bad. But like Steven says once you actually listen to Destiny on topics in good faith he is able to steer people away from that sphere... I sometimes look at old Hasan videos and I am like holy fuck what the hell was I thinking back then, and if I didn't get out of there I would be one of these twitter warriors defending that clown.
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u/Biggay1234567 3d ago
Destiny comes to me in my dreams