• VILenin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I know he's not unique, but I hate it when I'm watching a video about Mad Cow Disease and out of nowhere he brings up an Anthrax incident in Russia like 40 years ago as an example of Soviet authoritarianism or whatever. I absolutely loathe the infotainment channels that try to pass off their neoliberal garbage (in Kurzegesagt or however you spell it's case, literally funded by Bill Gates) and/or capitalist realist addled videos and/or basically just parroting the state department as some sort of objective analysis or "just the facts".

    And people trust what they say. They're having a real impact. These kinds of videos routinely pull in millions of views; how many people are watching CNN after the orange man is gone?

    Obviously leftists have fine tuned bullshit detectors, but what about everyone else?

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      but what about everyone else?

      They fall prey, of course