He reminds of a gecko

It's jarring that everything he says is intended to be unironic

I care less about his masculinity, it could be a women and still be a foolish argument heh.

It really irks me, his delivery is that of a teenage girl. It matters because it resonates with young impressionable people

Young people believe him because he sounds like them

@Agent Smith I haven't seen any of his videos but the one but its not Edgar, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhBA1gEfOMekIU2vrNidLA.

@RoadtoDawn I don't think that's why young people would believe him. But i'm sure that can have an effect.

Swap him for an old white guy, no one would tune in

What happens is people that have a certain view will take a video like this, copy and paste the url, and use the url as a rebuttal to your argument

They don't know how to argue, or what the arguments are. They take an article or video that agrees with their views and send it your way

@RoadtoDawn I used to get those types a lot...

The most annoying was always some cuntwaffle who would paste links to Hitchens or Dawkins and then boom, end of argument because “these people are experts”

Yeah one time I saw someone do it to someone in the comments, so I jumped in and addressed the actual points the article said. The guy responded to me by posting the same exact article I just dismantled

He actually didn't know what the article said, because the level of detail I went into requires someone to know their way around the issue

_Wow_

I dunno what to call that even

It’s a level of smug I can’t even wrap my head around

Smug and disconnect

Wanting to argue without doing the research, putting the work in, I suppose

“I’m so right I don’t even need to read the thing I’m pointing to which I think makes me right”

Wanna know what issue it was? Abortion

it was an article about freakonomics

Freakonomics?

Also, that’s why I get so frustrated with the NYT and such

Burying the leads

at the time I was familiar with the methodology they used to make the points, and I was able to challenge them. Since he didn't know the study or the methodology or the subjects, he was compeltely absent minded

Because most people don’t read past the fucking headline

Yeah

You're wrong because this headline says I'm right! Because... yes!

“I can’t tell you why, but that’s why I’m right! I’m so right all my arguments are self-explanatory!”

My favorite thing is when they take something you say, and say, "Just because x, doesn't automatically mean y"
They have no points, so they recoil in desperation and play the skeptic

If you don't know what freakonomics is, it's this study that suggests that aborting babies reduces the crime rate

I actually don't recall the years they measured

That’s inherently racist

Because most crimes are committed by black people

See I can argue like a leftist too

but it was glaring enough for me to dig into the external factors behind crime rate lowering, after abortion became legal I mean

yeah

Ah

I took the arguments head-on

So they do that but not increased gun ownership and lower crime rates