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I’m legitimately curious, I’ve seen some of your other posts and you’re saying that destiny owned this Owen guy. I’ll come out and say that I hate destiny and I was never retarded enough to actually enjoy listening to him like you were. As a former sycophant can you tell me what about destiny makes his supporters so deranged and cultish? I haven’t watched the Owen debate and I could care less about whether you think destiny won or lost. I just have never seen a destiny supporter admit that he lost a debate, even in the super obvious cases (such as his debate with metokur where he wanted to have US planes bomb Mexico). I’ve seen destiny win debates, and lose them but I’ve never seen any of his supporters ever admit it no matter how poorly he did. I just don’t see this sort of blind devotion for pretty much any other “political” internet figure. Can you shed light on why his defenders are so ardent? Ive seen destiny’s bullshit for close to a decade and his cultist followers don’t seem to have any less energy.
I'm probably not the best person to ask. I've never been a DGGer in the traditional sense. I don't use the discord, I don't use reddit, I don't watch him stream, I generally just watched him on youtube. I'm a left leaning person insofar as I generally oppose most wars, I support social programs, and I believe in treating people respectfully and looking out for each other. (This is why I have so many conflicts with some of my behavior in this thread.) But I also have a great amount of respect for art/creativity and allowing people to take risks when it comes to creativity. So I don't lose my mind if someone uses a racial slur when they're making a joke and it really bothers me when people try to restrict other people's speech. I try to look at people's intentions rather than just making blanket rules about what you can and cannot do. I would say overall, this is fairly similar to Destiny's viewpoint on things. Or at least, it was when I found him in 2021. I don't actually believe Destiny has a consistent worldview.
Since I typically separate the words people say from their actions or what I think their intentions are, I have a very easy time with a lot of things that people like Hasan, or Destiny, or mrgirl say. For example, right now people are taking Hasan saying that "the rapes don't matter" out of context. He's not saying he doesn't care about rape, he's saying that the bad actions of bad actors don't diminish the cause that they're fighting for. Or when Destiny talks about a potential for ethical CP, I don't think he's saying that CP is ethical, I recognize that he's just exploring thought experiments on ways that CP could potentially be ethical.
You will see me disagree with arguments even if I agree with his overall point Probably the most obvious example was his view on trans people. Personally, I treat trans people how they want to be treated. I don't misgender them, I try not to mock them unless they're nuts. But I don't view them as real women because I wouldn't sleep with a trans woman. So when Destiny makes arguments about how words mean different things to different people and are complicated, I will attack him, because he doesn't apply this same logic to the word cuck. I think he has retarded arguments for trans people. And i think he has retarded pro-abortion arguments even though I'm pro-choice.
I'm probably more in alignment with Destiny politically than I am with most other influencers, but I don't have much respect for him because I think he's too inconsistent and self serving. I think he believes what he says when he says them, but I think he'll change his mind very quickly. So, you'll see me criticize his yapping about Israel/Palestine. I won't derail this thread with what side I take on Israel/Palestine, but I am likely to talk about how Destiny shouldn't be taken seriously when he'll argue strongly in favor of Palestine when he was speaking to Lauren Southern, but then change his mind later. I don't think DGGers should take him seriously because you can't trust that he'll spend a significant amount of time learning about anything before he'll start yapping and he's very inconsistent. Let's say he's got the correct position on Israel/Palestine today. Isn't it problematic that he was so fucking sure of himself when he was arguing with Lauren and giving his retarded fan base arguments against Israel?
I've seen people like WhickTV or his DGG Footsoldiers cover for Destiny by saying, "heh, so he learned more about something and then changed his mind. You think that's a bad thing?" Yes. I do. Because he was speaking very confidently a few years ago, influencing a ton of people, and now he's going in the other direction and influencing more people. How do you know he's right now? I don't think most DGGers actually care whether he is or isn't right, I think they'll just go along with what he says because they're in a cult.
You know how they say that people hate in other people what they see in themselves? I think Destiny's hatred for Donald Trump and MAGA is 100 percent related to the Trump behaviors he sees in himself and the cultish MAGA behaviors he sees in DGG. Seriously, between the whoring, narcissism, self serving behavior, monuments to his ego, refusal to take accountability for anything etc, etc, you can see a ton of parallels between the two of them. It's actually crazy to me that no one has ever mentioned that to him before.
As for whether he wins or loses debates, I think he wins them more often than not. But I also know that debating is a skill. You can be wrong and still win a debate. If you spend any amount of time listening to Libertarians debate people, they win more often than not simply because they know how to control the conversation. For example, they will argue that taxation is theft. They make it hard to argue against that. So they'll win that argument with a lot of people unless their opponent says that theft is better than the alternative. Otherwise the libertarian is controlling the flow of the debate to be about the definition of theft.
So I don't put that much stock into that. I utilized Destiny in the same way I utilize Sam Seder or Dave Smith. I listen to them talk, they will say something I might not be aware of, I'll look into it more and see if I agree or not. I just happen to agree with Destiny more often than not.
Edit: My major issue with Destiny is that I think he's a bad person. He reminds me of a person I know whose motivations and behaviors were not immediately obvious to me. I think some people are very very good at obscuring their real reasons for saying and doing the things that they do and now that I see them I have to point them out. I noticed it a lot during the mrgirl saga and thats why I decided to start commenting on it. And I think he engages in some of this behavior during his debates.
Edit 2: There are definitely instances where Destiny has lost debates. The early posters in this thread were correct when they said that Destiny will call something a "conversation" instead of a debate when he loses. He was clearly outclassed by Zheanna, Martin Shrkelli, and the first conversation with Ryan Dawson.
And I will also say that I think that the criticisms from former fans probably bother Destiny more than the ones that come from conservatives. He's said before that when you get attacked by people on your side that it hurts more. I do think this thread is served very well by having people who politically agree with him.
TLDR: Destiny is a short cuck loser who can't keep a wife or friend and he lost to Mr Metokur and Naked Ape and also he abandoned his son and thank god he did because he's also a pedophile so we wouldn't want him near a kid anyway.