Good video on cognitive dissonance

Also:

october 7th was a horrific terrorist attack

LIB moment

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    9 months ago

    october 7th was a horrific terrorist attack

    Why would this even come up in the video? Can libs seriously shut the fuck up

    • replaceable [he/him]
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      It was in the context of nonsensical accusation, that MSF is hamas, that was used as an example

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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    9 months ago

    Besides being a LIB her videos have been feeling kinda unfocused and scattershot lately, with way more focus on bits and costumes than good argumentation. I'm actually less anti-bits-n-costumes in edutainment than most here but even for me it's getting to be a bit much.

    Honestly feels like she still doing YT just as a means to promote her acting career, which, whatevs, we all gotta hustle, especially those of us who want to be actors shrug-outta-hecks

    • replaceable [he/him]
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      The part about phantasms was very interesting but eveything leading up to it was unnecessary

    • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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      9 months ago

      If she's gonna hustle, she should hustle for better projects. Her big project is a short film directed by someone whose other credits includes ads and youtube scams (actual scams, "Buy my brain tonic/video courses" type scams)

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        9 months ago

        I mostly just know she does some stage shit in London, idk the quality of it

        • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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          9 months ago

          She did a play called "The Prince", which I don't know a lot about. The summary I heard, partially from Abigail herself, was that it was Hamlet but Hamlet finds out he's in a play halfway through. I haven't watched it, since it was only available as a stage performance or on nebula. That was her last big project that she would try to sell people on.
          Her newest project is short film called Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend which is a short film (Not a play).

          Edited out some criticism, it wasn't necessary.

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Sorry, I don’t care how good the rest of the video is, casual denigration of resistance to genocide is an immediate turnoff. Also I’ve had enough of these us-foreign-policy infrastructure influencers

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    I wish she'd make these videos less about herself, I dont need to know or care about her vanity projects and future career. I dont like the spoiled little rich kid energy one bit.

    But I actually managed to listen to the whole thing, first one of her videos I've made it through for ages.

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Yeeaaaah. Both contrapoints and philosophy tube really leaned into self indulgence the moment that they came out.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        In one of Philosophy Tube's videos, before she came out, she dressed herself up as a shirtless demon wearing a crown and a live snake to talk about Jordan Peterson, so let's not pretend the indulgence started after coming out.

    • Gorillatactics [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      I feel similar about Hbomb doing long videos about fixations like the oof sound. At a certain points the brand becomes bigger than the video subject. If the views come regardless they just follow whatever whim into a video essay or turn it into a vlog.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    I earnestly, just this very moment, learned that Philosophy Tube and ContraPoints aren't the same woman doing bits for an hour for their 10 minutes of content.

    • die_livster@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      njb is terminally lib and shills conservative think tanks such as strong towns
      philosophytube took money from the royal institution

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      NJB makes good points about how infrastructure can be changed to be better and gives good examples of that happening, but his solution to bad infrastructure is straight up "just move"

      • Dessa [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        I remember him saying Americans should just give up on making their cities better because he did. I'm sorry we can't all live in Amsterdam or wherever, but what the fuck kind of activist tells people to give up?

        • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          He's not an activist he's a lib with good opinions about transport and cities.

          • Dessa [she/her]
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            9 months ago

            There are a number of libs with good opinions and good editing skills in that field. I'd rather watch one that actually believes good things are possible in the places that need help the most, if for no other reason than that car emissions in the US fuck things up in Prague too

  • VaushsStrongestSoldier
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    9 months ago

    big fan of her videos, this looks cool abby-exasperation

    also the cowboy costume is pretty nice i think crush

  • atturaya@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    is anyone else really tired of urban planning videos? they were cool for a year or so when the topic was new to everyone, now there's thousands of people making the exact same videos about induced demand, bike lanes, etc.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Yes. I started on the topic by reading strong towns articles, moved on to YouTube. Read a few books. I feel like I've learned all I need to on the broad strokes of the topic and unsubbed from Not Just Bikes.

      I do still follow Alan Fisher though because he covers specific projects and gives calls to action.