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smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto videos@hexbear.net•Norman Finkelstein on His Debate with "that thing called" DestinyEnglish46·1 month agoDestiny isn’t owed attention, he has to first earn it. Since he didn’t earn it, he came into the debate as lil bro to Benny Morris, who was a historian and thus worthy of a debate with Norm.
That and the “just Google it” response from Destiny cemented the L and made it evident that Destiny wasn’t to be taken seriously from then on. This happened only a couple minutes into the debate.
He failed the vibe check from the start and spiraled from there, talking too fast to get his points across. He didn’t even have charisma since all attacks came off as awkwardness stemming from misreading the social situation.
I don’t like debates normally for this reason, they become charisma contests and truth becomes a second class citizen. Luckily this debate was a massive failure for Destiny. Your posting is the first I’ve heard from him for a while.
We did get funny soundbites from this, though.
mistah bonerelli
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto World News@lemmy.ml•LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.worldEnglish69·2 months ago“I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely…”
kills one and injures 4 others
I got a funny feeling this guy doesn’t actually care about consent.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from May 12th to May 18th, 2025 - Nuclear War Averted (Hopefully)!English57·2 months agoJeezum crow, unbelievable timing on the part of the media to start talking about this like 2 years after it matters.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from May 12th to May 18th, 2025 - Nuclear War Averted (Hopefully)!English67·2 months ago🇺🇸🇸🇦🇸🇾 Trump says US to lift Syria sanctions, secures $600 billion Saudi deal
Speaking in Riyadh, Trump said he was acting on a request to scrap the sanctions by Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“Oh what I do for the crown prince,” Trump said, drawing laughs from the audience. He said the sanctions had served an important function but that it was now time for the country to move forward.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani said on X that the planned move marked a “new start” in Syria’s path to reconstruction.
Bafoonishly corrupt, but ultimately good for the people of Syria to lift the sanctions. Now this will be used to make the current regime in Syria look better than it should. In the future, be ready with this event in mind when people say Jolani was a saint.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from May 5th to May 11th, 2025 - Fuck Fascists FridayEnglish17·2 months agoThere are still lots of flights taking off and landing in tel aviv, just not airlines from other countries. There’s still a long way to go before we get to closed airways.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from April 21st to April 27th, 2025 - JD Vance vs Pope Francis, No Items, Final DestinationEnglish1·2 months agoGiving him the ol boost, I see.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from April 21st to April 27th, 2025 - JD Vance vs Pope Francis, No Items, Final DestinationEnglish1·2 months agoIs this why I’m seeing more YouTube vids on the success of Millei-onomics?
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from April 14th to April 20th, 2025 - The Lamentations of a Levy-Loving LeaderEnglish1·3 months agoI was thinking Maher but both fit now that you mention it.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from April 14th to April 20th, 2025 - The Lamentations of a Levy-Loving LeaderEnglish1·3 months agoThe most annoying man in the world finds new and innovative way to become even more insufferable.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from April 14th to April 20th, 2025 - The Lamentations of a Levy-Loving LeaderEnglish1·3 months agoAccording to Van Hollen, he’s been moved out of CECOT to a lower security prison. IDK if that’s really an improvement but that’s as much as the guy can do to improve his condition since the current regime will just deport Albrego Garcia again if they bring him back.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.netto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I got some malware yesterday, here are the sites I visited as a warningEnglish44·2 years agoflix should have seen that coming ngl.
smokeppb [he/him]@hexbear.nettomain@midwest.social•What's the deal with Hexbear?English43·2 years agoThey think they just really like Mali over in lemmy.ml
If I disagreed with the theory of relativity, I would first read Wikipedia to see if I had the right idea, sure. But if I wanted to come to rebuke the theory altogether and be convincing to intellectuals I would have to do a lot more work. Poke holes in the theory either through critiquing the method used to prove the theory in the first place or by running my own more convincing tests, and then get published somewhere credible. Not easy.
Destiny didn’t do anything even close to this and instead attached his brand to Benny Morris, an actual historian like I said. But I’m not Norm,he had his reasons for accepting and everything worked out it seems.
What Bonerelli was saying to google BTW, was an IDF shooting of 4 innocent children coming out of a fisherman’s shack in 2014. At the time IDF and apparently Destiny thought it was a Hamas base, it wasn’t.
Basic Wikipedia tells me it wasn’t and only a self-investigation of the IDF absovled them in the end. From there the debate turned into shit show.