this is the reason these questions are asked. it doesn't matter how well el-sayed answers, the media get to write a headline with his name and the muslim brotherhood in it. heated, islamist, implications, criticize, disavow, dual loyalty, scary man bad

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What happens when the misunderstandings that pervade our lives don’t matter literally at all because the subject of the documentary lied and defrauded in very obvious ways adjudicated by a jury, and now lies about those lies ever having happened

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Nathan fielder wants to find the lies in small existential places, and to ask questions like “can we really know anybody?” This is essentially always what he wants to ask. But what happens when we don’t know people… because they stonewall us

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It’s not “how credible is the New York Times, really? Did they get that quote right?” It’s “undermining the credibility of the Times with no evidence.” I’m not sure if this is intentional but if it is, that’s pretty interesting lol

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The Nathan Fielder movie is about the inherently manipulative nature of language and documentary, but I the clearest example of this manipulation is not “do I remember these words exactly right,” it’s “did we look into how weird this power of attorney situation actually is”

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