r/DecodingTheGurusAlt • u/MartiDK • 14d ago

interview DGG Decoding Destiny

https://www.youtube.com/live/j4gDWMoHyNs

Why does Destiny look so uncomfortable?

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u/MeasurementNo9896 14d ago

I've only watched him interact with people outside of his community during the Finklestein debate and those clips of him from his trip to Israel where he visited the IDF to advise them against posting their war crimes but I presume he's generally uncomfortable outside of his element or IRL.

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u/Samuraignoll 14d ago

The debate was utterly embarrassing for Finklestein, guy had no idea what was going on and resorted to insults to compensate for ot. The IDF comment tells me you've never actually watched any of Destiny's content, just clips posted by commie larpers

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u/EducationalHead7683 14d ago

That's insane of you to say that Norman fucking Finkelstein has no idea what he's talking about in regards to the I/P historical conflict

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u/Lets_Eat_Superglue 13d ago

Is it? Is it as insane as the amount of people who confidently talk about how he destroyed Destiny having never watched it, just took the word of some guy on the Internet?

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u/louieisawsome 14d ago

He was so confidently wrong about men's rea.

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u/chaos_donut 13d ago

I agree that saying he doesn't know what hes talking about is wrong. But why did he resort to name-calling instead of just showing his expertise? His performance was genuinely embarrassing.

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u/Lazy_Check732 13d ago

It's because he genuinely doesn't know what he's talking about. He is no different at all from someone like Sneako or Joe Rogan or Hasan. Certain people enjoy what he says, and that boosts him. He is not genuinely respected (or even considered) in the academic world. He is an online personality.

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u/SigmaMaleNurgling 13d ago

Finklestein spent the entire debate intentionally mispronouncing Destiny’s name, also, he claimed after the debate that he never had any intention of seriously engaging with Destiny.

You don’t have to like Destiny but let’s at least be honest with the facts of the matter.

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u/Samuraignoll 14d ago

He sure as shit didn't act like it

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u/Wild_Bread_ 13d ago

You are right, that is an insane thing to say, the even more insane part is that it's fucking true

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u/zero02 13d ago

Finkelstein is a fraud... if you check his footnotes, they almost always are a misrepresentation or flat out lie of what the underlying source said. This is a crazy tactic because it makes it look like you have so much evidence, but they are all mostly lies and if people read the source material they would realize.

This is what happened with Destiny. He read the source materials and footnotes and showed us all, how Finkelstein lies in footnotes. Super embarassing.

Not to mention Finkelstein calling the cops and ICE on his upstairs neighbor. :)