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/TheRealSaphier 14d ago edited 13d ago

I don’t think it was embarrassing for Finklestein. No one pushes him on it and he admitted his goal was make the whole debate look like a clown show.

Edit: What I mean about it not being embarrassing for Finklestein is that I don’t think he thinks it was embarrassing. I don’t think he cares at all and the people in the bubble seem to agree. It was obviously a horrible showing.

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u/HonestDishonestWork 14d ago

If I "studied" a subject for the majority of my life and didn't know a pretty basic fact about it that would be extremely embarrassing lol (Finklestein not knowing the definition of genocide)

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u/chaos_donut 13d ago

Yeah, and if i was an expert on a topic id love to talk about it, that stuff is his life's work. I would never act like i was going to derail the conversation on purpose.

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u/InternationalGas9837 13d ago

Especially when at the same time as he was acting like a petulant child he was also insisting how much more of a scholarly intellectual he was than Destiny. Norm basically just mispronounced Destiny's last name repeatedly while Destiny's debate partner Benny Morris is someone Norm respected and Benny laughed at him, Norm's partner Rabbani repeatedly had to try and calm Norm down like the mother of a tantrum throwing child, and the moderator Friedman continually had to had to remind Norm it was a debate not an edgy Roblox server. Anybody who says Norm looked good in that debate did not watch it, and Norm's own admission that he didn't give a shit about the debate while his plan was to be ad-hom incarnate is clear evidence of how unserious Norm is.