• Folstar@lemmus.org
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    Parker Sedgwick has a Youtube channel and is pretty good. He could be a voice of his generation if he can manage to sand off his Ben Shapiro-esq energy.

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    MAGA pundit and influencer Dave Rubin is facing ridicule after struggling to name a single aspect of the economy that has improved since President Donald Trump returned to power last year.

    I don’t think that’s fair. I’d also struggle to name an aspect of the economy that improved under Trump.

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    These dopes always say stuff like “I think I read where…” and go on to make a statement that slam dunks their argument, based on the incontrovertible source “I think I read somewhere…” Then you find out they didn’t read or hear that anywhere but the Conservative Propaganda Machine, because it isn’t true. At all.

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    Trump ran for a return to the Oval Office in 2024 on a promise to bring inflation under control and end “forever war” commitments overseas.

    Instead, he has introduced a reciprocal tariffs policy that has seen the increased cost of imports passed onto consumers and attacked Iran, resulting in higher gas prices following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

    The thing is, they’re fucking stupid and incapable of learning. A lot of this is because of our hollowed-out educational system, but some are just meth-addict fucks. Fuck them. I hope they burn.

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    “People have less money to spend on fentanyl.”

    that’s all i could think of

    I’m not sure if that’s an improvement or not, I get it, I want some fentanyl from time to time

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    He could just admit what all the MAGAts want: “If we make it harder for disenfranchised minorities to survive, that benefits straight, white, maies, right? This is what people voted for!”

    I haven’t seen a debate go that sideways since Charlie Kirk…

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      Even before Steve Jobs created and popularized(poisoned?) the IPO gold rush technique all VC money now attempts to redo with every startup, and before Jack Welch turned every American company into entities that primary gain value through stock value manipulation not actually doing a business, and before Reagan had thoroughly rat fucked the American financial system to be a pure engine of capitalistic wealth and power consolidation it is today, it was still at best a scoreboard

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      Its a misery index of how much wealth can be extracted from the working class.

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      And it’s mostly down if you calculate inflation correctly. NVDA, TSLA, MSFT and now anthropic priced like Walmart are all green 😂 AI bubble gonna turn it all red

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      It’s an economic gauge for the small segment of society that gets more income from investments than they do from wages.

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      Rich people think the Dow is the best indicator of the economy, but 90% of people couldn’t tell you where the Dow is on a daily basis.

      GAS PRICES are the prime indicator of the economy for most Americans, and they are posted on EVERY street corner.

      When they ask “Have you seen the stock market?” Say, “No, why would I? Have you seen the price of gas?”

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    That guy he’s arguing against, Parker, basically debates against random MAGA people for a living. I think I saw a comment from someone on one of these videos that he debates people for hours a day.

    The thing that I think he’s exceptionally good at is rattling off a bunch of surprisingly relevant facts like he did in this video. I’ve seen many other people try to quickly rattle off facts in a debate like that, and they almost always either stray off topic or end up exaggerating so much that it’s become a lie. But somehow Parker manages to avoid those things.

    Anyways, my point is that you’d have to be crazy to try to debate against Parker without knowing at least a few facts to support your point.

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      Parker is a saint. I don’t know how he can argue with that many clearly unhinged yet seemingly ordinary people and not lose his mind. His videos after Charlie Kirk had his money put where his neck was were especially heartbreaking.

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      I don’t think Rubin is crazy, he just doesn’t care. Hes made loads of money pandering to the right while having to do zero work or reading.

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      The ignorant sonsabitches that don’t thunk mighta thunk it ifin they had the ability to thunk!

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    “Comedian” Dave Rubin, most spineless, shameless dipshit on planet earth. The impressive thing is how he is completely unfazed by being completely humiliated by his interlocutors.

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    It’s kind of funny watching these conservative “pundits” think they are there to “own” all the normal Americans (non-conservatives) and they either believe their bullshit so hard or they want to believe it. And then faceplant.

    For example, Scott Jennings. It’s funny to see cons trying to spin clips of him “owning” others on that panel or whatever.

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      They’ve been watching decades of Faux News and other conservative programming, along with people like Charlie Kirk, that steamroll their opponents with bullshit, loaded questions, and Gish Gallop so heavily that there’s no possible way to disprove them in the time given - and that’s if they don’t just shout them down or outright ignore their rebuttal.

      So these wannabe “kirks” just try to mash the easy button without realizing how controlled the environments are in which the conservative pundits operate to prevent actual opposition.

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        I think Scott Jennings is maybe stepping down now. Wonder if it has anything to do with him melting down when debating Adam Mockler.

        Good grief, Scott is just a gigantic baby. He seems to love to do his gaslighting of others then acting all shocked and gives gigantic smirks about how “emotional” others are, but apparently Mockler really gets under his skin by asking basic fucking questions, LOL.

        It’s always projection with conservatives. ALWAYS. If they cannot control the framing of a discussion - meaning, allowed to get away with lies, Gish Gallop, cut mics of those they disagree with, and loads of logical fallacies, it is they who suddenly catch feelings.

        I know of at least two times where Scott got all butthurt over questions from Mockler. Probably drives him crazy that someone that looks like he’s still in junior high runs circles around him. Also, Mockler is gay, LOL.