Beavs fan?
For first-language Englishers who don’t stuggle THAT bad with language, it’s somehow one of the absolute most reliable signs you’re dealing with an incorrigible ignoramus
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joe rogan and elon musk trying to attack and send their mobs after one of the guys that invented the patent free covid vaccine is a great image of what twitter has become.
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Rogan supporting RFK Jr makes way too much sense.
Ah the old “Why won’t you debate an idiot with no time limit on an idiot’s show for his idiot following, huh Mr. PhD?” Check and mate.
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I think you can call in this spot. But you have to be really fucking good and prepared.
Jon Stewart could maybe do it (maybe this topic isn’t in his wheelhouse).
Of course, even if you win, it’s not worth that much. But dunking with perfect form on idiots is its own reward.
The move is to agree to debate for the $100k to charity, but not on Rogan’s podcast - or at least without Rogan there. With Rogan “moderating” the debate, it’s going to be a pointless shit show.
You cannot debate someone who only deals in bad faith and whose audience is too stupid to realize they’ve been proven wrong. It’s like debating a feces-flinging chimp in front of the other chimps.
Literally all RFK Jr. has to do is throw endless shit against the wall, doesn’t have to be consistent with itself, doesn’t have to come from real sources, and just trip up the PhD on one single issue. Then he can spike the football and claim victory. It’s an impossible setup.
His audience is predisposed to be fine with RFK Jr. being proven wrong 100x in a row. But if RFK gets one good sound bite in on the PhD, then all the science is suspect and anyone can believe whatever they want. No fence-sitters would ever be watching the debate. PhD can never win.
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That’s why you have to be really fucking good. You can’t let that happen.
Yeah when he throws insane shit at you you’ve never even heard before.
Refute all 30 of these, NOW, and if you can’t then clearly you don’t know shit and RFK Jr. wins.
When you’re done we got 30 more and basically an endless supply. Doesn’t matter if you prove 99 of them wrong. If you can’t prove one wrong during a live debate we claim victory. We don’t care if you show that our arguments are inconsistent with each other, and totally impugn one of our sources. We still expect you to refute endless nonsense from that same source. Because we’re debating in bad faith.
You don’t ever get to grill JFK Jr., because he’s not the scientist, you are. It’s not a debate it’s an interrogation.
Here’s where you take a page out of the old Trump play book and just starting insulting him for what a dumbass he is. Audience doesn’t care about facts but a good zinger is hard to resist.
Don’t get me wrong. It is very hard.
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It’s worse than this, even, because the simple act of presenting this as a debate between a Ph.D. scientist and RFK Jr. means that the scientist is treating RFK Jr. as a legitimate peer who has an equally valid but differing opinion. Even successfully debunking anything RFK Jr. has to say is a loss, because people will still see him in that elevated and esteemed position.
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I think he should debate him.
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https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1670423800842969088?s=46&t=5hvXlsf4T7tfwsHhoSoFtw
https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1670424044385214464?s=46&t=5hvXlsf4T7tfwsHhoSoFtw
https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1670430204727267329?s=46&t=5hvXlsf4T7tfwsHhoSoFtw
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Yea, his clip on Rogan talking about agriculture and herbicides came across my tik tok. And while there is room to have concerns about herbicides and their overuse. He was completely making shit up that sounds plausible but doesn’t actually happen in reality. Just completely full of shit.
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I thought David Simon quit twitter. Might be misremembering.
Marc Cuban calls out Joe Rogan.
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1670483371393421312?t=nBMGmWTW8SKGRzNsDCMx2Q&s=19
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