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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Destiny, aka The Omni Liberal, aka Steven Bonnell is the debater who most terrifies right-wing trolls on Twitter. He was among the first people in the world to stream video games online full-time and now live-streams political debates in which he crushes his conservative opponents. What makes him tick?
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0:00.0 | Gahey, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Imagine if you spend all your day |
0:08.2 | on the internet, on a webcam, arguing with people you disagree with. And not just people |
0:14.0 | you disagree with, people who hold ridiculous, intentionally divisive, hysterical ideas, |
0:20.0 | and you're just trying to make them |
0:21.6 | bring some sanity to what they believe. |
0:25.9 | That's the fate of destiny, today's guest. |
0:29.5 | Destiny is the nom de plume of Stephen Bonnell, the second, |
0:36.1 | who is a young gentleman. |
0:38.5 | I feel like Ed Sullivan. |
0:40.4 | A young gentleman on the program today uses the internet to communicate with other people he |
0:47.0 | disagrees with. |
0:48.3 | Destiny started out as a video game streamer, who's one of the first people to professionally |
0:52.7 | full-time stream his own video |
0:54.9 | games. If that's something, that's a world that you're not familiar with, trust me, it's massive, |
1:00.3 | hundreds of millions of people around the world, sit down and watch other people play video |
1:04.0 | games. And if you're good, and if you can sort of narrate them in a charming and whimsical way, |
1:09.4 | then you can get a lot of followers and with a lot of followers |
1:12.1 | and a lot of viewers, a lot of money. That is and was the full-time job of destiny until he realized |
1:20.5 | he could also stream political arguments, cultural arguments, with people mainly from the right |
1:27.3 | and poke holes in them and post those |
1:30.8 | videos to YouTube as well as well as just streaming them that is his full-time job he's |
1:35.0 | massively influential online I first came across him on Twitter where he is omnibral |
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