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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're a functioning adult and so are unfamiliar with juvenile right-wing grifters on YouTube, here's a good introduction. What happens when BS accidentally engages with someone who isn't a 17-year-old college coed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-TFpmix54

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+1. Even the little answer he gives before deciding to freak out about being asked the question: "something called science" isn't a real answer to the question. "Science" doesn't dictate what abortion policy should be, because that question involves ethics and values not merely scientific facts about fetus development. I'm a centrist on abortion and there are places he and I probably agree, but he's not making the intellectual argument that he (I assume) could, he's making a half hearted gesture towards an argument then changing the subject and ranting. He's not an impressive debater.[/quote]

Shapiro has a good trick - he talks steadily and at a cadence that is hard for the average American to interrupt because we are so conditioned to treat conversation as a give and take. Shapiro doesn't observe that norm and just keeps talking. Andrew Neil didn't fall for it and threw him very easily off his game for someone that claims to be such a serious thinker/debater.

That doesn't really help OP. OP, I think you may be stuck for right now. I guess I'd focus on how Crowder's show/rants actually contribute to anything constructive for society or is it just a fun outlet for grievances? Because that's all Shapiro, Crowder, Tucker Carlson Laura Ingrham Sean Hannity Rush (thankfully no more) are doing. They have always been part of the elite and are going to fight tooth and nail to make sure it stays that way. Sad way to go through life.[/quote]

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