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Who's your favourite at debating?

  • 06-03-2019 4:55pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭


    Personally I like watching or listening Milo Yiannopoulos, he's very funny and hits the target.

    Ben Shapiro can be a good banter too.

    Chanty Binx puts on a great show, I don't think I'd be able to handle her.

    My favourite would probably be Christopher Hitches, he really had his facts right along with good wit and knock out potential.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    Gavin McInnes is good very rarely losses a debate.
    Him and Jessie Ventura was a great debate.
    Stephen Crowder also very good


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    I like when lots of people debate in church on a Sunday...

    Gotta love those massdebators!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Hi new person!

    I like ** random alt-right figure ** and don't like dem damn ES-JAY-DUBYAS!

    Thanks for the list, be sure to like, share and subscribe and remember it's your support on Patreon that helps us take the fight to those politically correct elites!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Sam Harris.

    Any of the right wingers who have made their name destroying bad arguments like Crowder, Shapiro etc. would be eaten alive by him.

    Very interesting listening to Jordan Peterson sound out of his depth for the first time in a public discussion when speaking with Harris.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,438 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Any liberal lefty


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    George Galloway was a good orator in his time.

    Assfcked the US senate en masse, in their own house.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Who ever is good at skwering, destroying, lambasting or whatever click bait title is popular.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    greencap wrote: »
    George Galloway was a good orator in his time.

    Assfcked the US congress en masse, in their own house.

    Just a pity he ass kissed Saddam Hussein and is a true believer socialist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    Winston Churchill was a fine orator


    Or are we plugging our mates podcasts?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    Milo is awesome


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Hi new person!

    I like ** random alt-right figure ** and don't like dem damn ES-JAY-DUBYAS!

    Thanks for the list, be sure to like, share and subscribe and remember it's your support on Patreon that helps us take the fight to those politically correct elites!

    Christoper Hitchens.... Alt Right?

    For gods sake man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I love the gay Jewish classical liberal Dave Rubin. (Makes it funny when wackjobs label him a nazi.)

    He came out of TYT so knows regressive leftism like the back of his hand. Knowing how your enemy thinks and works is crucial in debate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    Destiny off YouTube is pretty good IMO.

    Have to say I hate this trend that's emerged of titling videos "X destroys Liberal with facts/Y calmly Dismantles sjw with reason/Z impregnated triggered leftist with his logic-cock". Half the time when you watch the vids nobody is getting "destroyed" and its just people discussing things like civilised people. The goal of debate shouldn't be to destroy anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Tacklebox wrote: »
    Personally I like watching or listening Milo Yiannopoulos, he's very funny and hits the target.

    Ben Shapiro can be a good banter too.

    Chanty Binx puts on a great show, I don't think I'd be able to handle her.

    My favourite would probably be Christopher Hitches, he really had his facts right along with good wit and knock out potential.

    You almost got me there. Fair play.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    Christoper Hitchens.... Alt Right?

    For gods sake man.

    I don't complain about this much as it usually turns up in threads where there's other stuff I'd rather discuss but I ****ing hate everyone being described as "alt right" these days. Alt rightists want to create an all-white ethnostate, they're fascist nutters and as far as I'm aware, there's very few of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Ipso wrote: »
    Just a pity he ass kissed Saddam Hussein and is a true believer socialist.

    It’s precisely because he “ass kissed” Saddam that he is a great un.

    Are there still people who think that was a good war?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Sam Harris.

    Any of the right wingers who have made their name destroying bad arguments like Crowder, Shapiro etc. would be eaten alive by him.

    Very interesting listening to Jordan Peterson sound out of his depth for the first time in a public discussion when speaking with Harris.

    Harris should not even be mentioned in the same breath as those other chancers.

    Harris is a knowledgeable and very intelligent man. The others who you mentioned are little more than grifters who use cheap debating tricks that impress the kinds of incels who wouldn't know a good debate if it jizzed in their face after selling them health supplements.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    Ben Shapiro can buy and sell most people. That man should run for office in the US.

    Dr. Jordan Peterson, naturally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Harris has never seemed that brilliant to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    Harris has never seemed that brilliant to me.

    He's great on religion


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    If we're going to do this seriously, then Stephen Fry is great as is Michael D.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Bosco, nobody could put him back in his box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There are a number of people on YouTube who carefully deconstruct the utter bullshit those reactionary clowns [Hitchens excepted] pass off as reasoned debate.

    Here are two pretty good ones.

    Shaun

    Three Arrows


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Has nobody bothered to google the name on that list that you hadn't heard of?

    Or are you all in on this without me?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    He's great on religion

    That’s a pretty easy one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Has nobody bothered to google the name on that list that you hadn't heard of?

    Or are you all in on this without me?

    She was an early hate figure for the MRA crowd because of some mad video rant about 10 years ago. More of a meme type character these days as I don't think there's been anything from her in years.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/big-red


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Ben Shapiro can buy and sell most people. That man should run for office in the US.

    Dr. Jordan Peterson, naturally.

    His political stuff is pulled apart by the Zero Books channel on YouTube who he's been avoiding debate with for a long time now.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    She was an early hate figure for the MRA crowd because of some mad video rant about 10 years ago. More of a meme type character these days as I don't think there's been anything from her in years.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/big-red

    PAYYY-TREEEE-ARCHYY

    she came across as vile, even the sound of her voice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    There are a number of people on YouTube who carefully deconstruct the utter bullshit those reactionary clowns [Hitchens excepted] pass off as reasoned debate.

    Here are two pretty good ones.

    Shaun

    Three Arrows


    I'm a fan of both of these but in fairness they do response videos as opposed to live debates.

    All the lads who love the right wing arguing in bad faith types - have any of you seen Jesse Lee Peterson? I could watch him "debate" all day, comedy genius.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 53,826 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I myself am a masterdebater. World class one too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    RWCNT wrote: »
    I'm a fan of both of these but in fairness they do response videos as opposed to live debates.

    A lot of those people make good money from their social media presence and big ticket events so wouldn't be well disposed to being shown up. Also, I don't think back-and-forth debate lends itself too well to deconstructing another person's points.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Jordan Peterson is not a public intellectual. A public intellectual would release more than two books in a twenty year period, and neither of them would be pop psychology self help books for useless geeks looking for a father figure. He's the Canadian Dr Phil.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭i71jskz5xu42pb


    A lot of those people make good money from their social media presence and big ticket events so wouldn't be well disposed to being shown up.

    Peterson was making near $1m per year on just on Patreon before he quit it.
    Plus money for his "shows" (you'd think Borris Johnson money)
    Presumably there's other revenue streams.

    If I was making that kind of cash I'd play it safe as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    George Hook


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,602 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Jordan Peterson is not a public intellectual. A public intellectual would release more than two books in a twenty year period, and neither of them would be pop psychology self help books for useless geeks looking for a father figure. He's the Canadian Dr Phil.

    He knows what he's doing and caters for a very specific type of young male who laps him up.

    I've a few mates who bring him up constantly as if they're under the enchantment of David Koresh, it's embarrassing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Wibbs

    I heard he shouted at a cat once. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    RWCNT wrote: »
    I don't complain about this much as it usually turns up in threads where there's other stuff I'd rather discuss but I ****ing hate everyone being described as "alt right" these days. Alt rightists want to create an all-white ethnostate, they're fascist nutters and as far as I'm aware, there's very few of them.

    The labelling of anyone you don't agree with using the catch all term alt right is lazy at best.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭Auntie Semite


    Many mentioned here are hardly Alt Right
    For example Jordan Peterson is despised by the Alt Right

    Christopher Hitchens was a master of debate.
    Peter Hitchens is a great debater.
    Sam Harris
    Camille Paglia (personal favourite)

    Tim Pool who I wouldn't regard as a debater as such did extremely well versus Jack Dorsey of twitter on Joe Rogan last night.

    Nick Fuentes pretty good for someone so young.
    J F Gariepy
    Vox Day

    Not nessecarily endorsing all the characters above just enjoy listening to them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Of all the people mentioned I think Hitchens was in fact the greatest charlatan, and in fact had the most destructive effect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Anthony Fantano.

    Don't agree with all of his opinions regarding music but the man is very well informed in general matters.

    He destroyed that idiot Paul Joseph Watson.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    greencap wrote: »
    George Galloway was a good orator in his time.

    Assfcked the US senate en masse, in their own house.

    Bosco could have done that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Of all the people mentioned I think Hitchens was in fact the greatest charlatan, and in fact had the most destructive effect.

    You gonna elaborate?


    2zgyyv4.jpg
    Indeed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,904 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Ian O Doherty.

    That's why you rarely see him on RTE any more because he destroys the lefties on the panel in minutes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    You gonna elaborate?


    2zgyyv4.jpg
    Indeed!

    What’s the point of that picture?

    Hitchens was a major supporter of the iraq war, his historical knowledge was weak to say the least, and he was banging the drums for more wars (Iran for instance) towards the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Ian O Doherty.

    UnequaledCoordinatedBison-size_restricted.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,808 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Christoper Hitchens.... Alt Right?

    For gods sake man.
    He mightn't be Alt Right but he was Oft Wrong...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭Auntie Semite


    Angela Nagle is great (Irish too)

    Jimmy Dore

    Roger Scruton


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    Ian O Doherty.

    That's why you rarely see him on RTE any more because he destroys the lefties on the panel in minutes.

    Lolz


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Tacklebox wrote: »
    My favourite would probably be Christopher Hitches, he really had his facts right along with good wit and knock out potential.

    The ultimate charlatan. A social-climbing arse-licker with a decent turn of phrase. I prefer his brother. At least his views - as batshit as some of them may be - are sincerely held.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    You gonna elaborate?


    2zgyyv4.jpg
    Indeed!

    er, not sure why my I'm underlined, I'm not particularly religious if that's what your getting at in spite of the user name :D


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