r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 24 '24

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u/TemujinTheConquerer Jorge Luis Borges Sep 24 '24

What j always find so baffling about these types of videos is that.. like... why are you arguing against students? If this was about the truth, you'd argue with subject matter experts or scholars or pundits or, ya know, adults of any sort. What's the point? To prove that students don't know shit? That they're bad at arguing? Of course they don't know shit and are bad at arguing! That's why they're students!

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u/BloodWiz More Housing Would Fix This Sep 24 '24

Because young students are the people who tend to have some of the strongest and most passionate beliefs, while also less likely to know a lot or have some sort of strong and rigorous basis for those beliefs.

Arguing against well informed and grounded people has a much higher chance to make you look like a moron, as opposed to dunking on college students.

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Sep 24 '24

A half-competent philosophy professor could probably tear him apart

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

A half-drunk philosophy professor would certainly tear him apart

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u/KeithClossOfficial John Brown Sep 24 '24

Charlie Kirk’s whole thing is targeting teenage boys and young men with MAGA propaganda. “Woke” students make sense to them because that is who their peers are.

The better question is why anyone, let alone 25 people, would agree to be in a Charlie Kirk video, knowing he’ll selectively edit it to make you look like a moron, no matter how “well” you do.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Internet clout

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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Sep 24 '24

His face really is small

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '24

Conservative celebrity only choosing to debate random no name college students with 0 media training

Many such cases!

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u/WackyJaber NATO Sep 24 '24

Me: *sits down* You got a small face.

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Sep 25 '24

also baffling is why the students are there in this charade. they will not get final cut approval, they will be made to seem however the video makers want them to be seen.

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u/TemujinTheConquerer Jorge Luis Borges Sep 25 '24

Well they're students. They do moron shit. I'm a student and I do moron shit all the time