I genuinely struggle to think of a single stream I've seen of his where there isn't a direct lie about something. Just because he also does all kinds of weasely deceptive things that aren't outright lies, doesn't mean he avoids doing those even slightly.
I never said he's not lying, he just doesn't "outright lie" I really can't explain it better than that.
He will never deny something outright initially, his lies are always complex and with partial truths, so when he has finally created his whole narrative, full of half truths he ends up "winning" the narrative, or better, simply "surviving".
An outright lie would have been that when Melina confronted him about his close relationship with Lauren Southern for him to outright deny he's having an affair or romantic relationship with Lauren, but although we don't have an inside of how he gaslighted Melina, I will still take a guess (after seeing his pattern of behaviour) that he didn't simply say "I have no interest in Lauren" or "You think I'm having an affair? I'm not having an affair".
Destiny never simply "lies", more than likely, he said something a long the lines of "yeah Melina, I'm going to cheat on you with the white nationalist of all people" or made a point of showing how "jealous and deranged" Melina even suggesting that he would cheat with Lauren would be.
The fact that he never "outright lies" is why he's able to manipulate people, it seems dumb, but that method of continuously changing the narrative, every single lie with their own hints of truth, continuously poisoning the well slowly, it's very effective.
A lot of the DGGers who stayed and are defending him would have left if everything came out at the same time. However him slowly creating his narrative that "Pxie is a money hungry whore", that "the girls consented they just don't remember it", "Pxie wants 15 MILLION", "Pxie was sending me videos of her bf, WITHOUT HIS CONSENT", it's all very effective for his Footsies delusions.
I said it before but Destiny weaponizes the fact that other people can feel empathy/sympathy, he's fully aware that his fans WANT him to be innocent, that they want him acting like a victim and depressed to not just be an act, and that the girls he's sexting don't want him to be a degenerate creep, so he plays into that by slowly creating a narrative which is made entirely full of half truths:
- Pxie's legal team did mention 15 million, she's very much aware that number is unrealistic, she wants less than that.
- "Pxie is a money hungry whore", just the fact that she was looking for monetary compensation, and that she wanted Destiny to "feel it".
- "The girls consented, they just don't remember it". Well they consented to being recorded, so how do we know they didn't consent to also spread it around? Destiny has spoken that he has similar deals like this: See BabyPeach as an example.
- "Pxie was sending me videos of her bf without consent" She was sending videos of her bf, but she had his consent for doing it.
These are all lies, but they aren't "outright", they have their small truth, and any Footsoldier and desperate Destiny e-whore, will cling to them to justify continuing to watch Destiny.
Just like how a wife (Melina) would cling to her husband's continuous jokes about Lauren being his nazi queen, and his second wife, as being so callous in nature that it must mean that he's not actually having an affair as why would he be so obvious.
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Also never outright saying something allows him to play the "I never said I wasn't fucking Lauren" game, he loves to use the fact that he never explicitly said something, which his fans and e-whores also eat up as a "win".
It's genuinely deranged and retarded, but it works, he's able to manipulate people and control the narrative because of it.
His fans, very often, will do the arguing for him, again, as an example for months his fans were outright denying that there was a Chaeiry tape, even tho multiple people had said they had heard it.
But Destiny never outright said the tape didn't exist, he just simply implied it, by saying that Chaeiry was crazy, ignoring her allegation, and creating the narrative that people are just trying to "get him", that it's all just one big "conspiracy", so without ever saying the exact words of "Chaeiry is lying, there is no tape" his fans still caught on to it and argued that for him.