This Maga who doesn’t understand how taxes work is a classic example of the awfulness of arguing with a stupid person
To the United States now, where actor, activist and much else besides Sam Seder took part in a debate with a whole room of Magas on a YouTube page called Jubilee, which puts together people with diametrically opposed views.
Now we hadn’t of Seder before but having watched a whole bunch of clips we might be his new number one fan.
Not just because of what he believes in, or how he tried to put these Magas right, but with the extraordinary patience he showed after this particular Maga-in-chief just could not get how taxes work.
It was a debate about Elon Musk’s DOGE and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and the various potential tax benefits it has to offer. Not to everyone, mind, as Seder was at pains to point out. And we really do mean pain.
This was the moment @SamSeder realized you just can’t get through to these people pic.twitter.com/5pH9ISu1jW
— CHM (@refrmdemocracy.bsky.social) (@RefrmDemocracy) March 9, 2025
The look on his face at the end surely speaks for us all. Extraordinary scenes! And here are a whole bunch of the many, many things people said about their exchange.
1.
The fact that dude thinks Government agencies get tax cuts is astounding.
— Fieryone (@Fireyone) March 10, 2025
2.
It’s not that the kid is wrong, it’s that he’s wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn’t ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured stupidity that did it. https://t.co/I3pQfOukCm
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 11, 2025
3.
Every time I see this clip I become less pro democracy https://t.co/bNj14QCgve
— Komi 민주당 (@AnonymousLeftie) March 11, 2025
4.
“I’ve wasted my time here” pic.twitter.com/ryA4Se3dcQ
— aa5k ❤️ (@aa5k_idk) March 10, 2025
5.
>government agencies are operated by the government
>”that is not true”
>??? https://t.co/DILbGmnKJk— Nikolaj (@nikicaga) March 10, 2025
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This one in particular is so smug and annoying and so stupid. He thinks he’s proving his point yet he proves nothing.
— Sharon is here (@Sharon67645247) March 10, 2025