This is an extremely high-risk approach in a context where everyone is filming and the other guy is actively trying to trip you up! But El-Sayed looks absolutely, completely unfazed - like he was eight moves ahead and saw the poor sucker’s demise written down in the book of fate, no escape

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Yeah, a lot of politicians can give a rhetorically strong answer - what makes this clip so mind-blowing is how he entirely dismantles a hostile questioner by forcing him to elaborate. The closest comparison I’ve ever seen is watching law school profs abjectly humiliate unprepared classmates

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One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

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the wire: an associates degree makes you a king me, with more years on campus than i can count: school makes you a moron outside of your specific field

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me: this guy hates elon musk. but who doesn't at this point iggy: mr toad doesn't hate elon musk me: that's true actually because mr toad loves to crash his car and is incredibly conceited brian: but moley and ratty and badger all hate elon musk me: oh badger HATES elon musk

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