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Orrex

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9. Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 09:14 AM

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He argues more or less exactly like a creationist. He was a big fan of the Gish gallop, equivocation, false equivalence, non-representative sample, invoking questionable authorities, etc.

And, just like fundamentalists confronted with vile passages from their bible, Kirk (and his fanbois) insist that these direct quotes are "taken out of context."

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On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all] applegrove Yesterday OP

IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series no_hypocrisy Yesterday #1

Yes, there are those tactics NJCher Yesterday #3

Limbaugh's choice of logical fallacies was argumentum ad hominum (personal insults) no_hypocrisy Yesterday #4

Not to mention NJCher Yesterday #7

Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube Orrex Yesterday #9

He's dead. Iggo Yesterday #2

So we can't discuss his debating style 2.5 weeks after? applegrove Yesterday #5

LOL. All that from "He's dead"? Iggo Yesterday #16

This Kirk is no more. mr715 Yesterday #18

He's being pumped up, but not by us. He's being turned into Horst Wessel, and that'll have consequences. Crunchy Frog Yesterday #21

Why discuss him at all? Conjuay Yesterday #17

So? niyad Yesterday #8

I saw a booth dedicated to him at a Fall Festival in western PA yesterday Orrex Yesterday #12

He did these bad faith debates just to own lefties & make fun of them for his social media SunImp Yesterday #6

He was a piece of shit then, and a piece of shit now. Orrex Yesterday #14

He got owned often enough by the students Johonny Yesterday #10

Sartre's quote on anti-Semites springs to mind... sir pball Yesterday #11

Damn. Nothing new under the sun. Orrex Yesterday #13

Oscar Wilde had a good response for a time like this. Swede Yesterday #15

Cambridge didn't go well at all. JanMichael Yesterday #19

Just wrecked him. Totally. mr715 Yesterday #20