felipec
unbelief
Freedom of speech maximalist who is anti-woke, anti-orthodoxy, anti-establishment, and anti-capitalist.
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felipec
unbelief
15d ago
Everyone understands sarcasm. Zoomers didn't invent it.
The problem is that Piers Morgan sees himself not just as vastly intellectually superior to Nick Fuentes, but in a completely different league. He underestimated Fuentes so much, he didn't even see the need to listen to him. He thought all he had to do is research, present the evidence, and it would be an automatic win. That's why he didn't even consider the possibility that Fuentes was being sarcastic.
Just consider the moment when Fuentes said the number of Jews that died in the Holocaust could have been 7, 6, 8 million... maybe 100 times more. If Morgan paused for a second to listen to what Fuentes just said, he would realize he was being trolled, but he didn't, because the possibility that he was going to be intellectually outmatched wasn't on his bingo card.
There were around 500k Jewish people in Germany at the time, so how could the number of dead be 600k?
I've seen this happen countless times. For example when Paul Krugman commented on a post by Scott Adams, underestimating Adams' intellect and not even considering the possibility that he was being trolled.
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. Zoomers are just taking advantage of the Boomers' overconfidence, and having a laugh about how stupid it makes them look.
felipec
unbelief
15d ago
You don't understand reaction strategy. Nick Fuentes doesn't need to explain anything, he just needs to say something provocative for other people to react. And that's exactly what happened.
If you watch reaction videos, pretty much everyone is saying the same thing: 1 in 100 is still pretty bad.
It's exactly the same when somebody makes a typo in a title. It's engagement baiting. "Oh, you got me, I'm so bad at spelling".
No, you just don't understand the moves that are happening.
Yeah, but the problem is that Fuentes' style does require listening, so he was responding to what Morgan actually said. The audience is also listening to both. Morgan is the only one that wasn't.
That's why the little jabs that Fuentes did proved to the audience that Morgan wasn't listening, because he didn't respond or engage, he just continued with his script.
There's a reason why in 2025 people prefer the long-form podcast style: because it's harder to fake.
At the end of the day Fuentes' style feels much more authentic. Nobody likes Morgan's style anymore.
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