• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Everyone I've known in real life who primarily gets their political opinion from YouTube or twitch is very easily swayed. They'll change their political identifier month to month based on the newest video or whoever got owned in a debate stream the previous night. I don't get it.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Because they don't have much political conviction to begin with or much of an opinion on their own. It's like people who let their family, radio show, or tv network dictate their political viewpoints.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          But reading takes longer so at least you'll stick with a label for a little while.

          • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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            3 years ago

            honestly with the lengths this youtube tripe is getting up to and streamers and such im certain consuming that is as much or more of a timesink. less intellectually difficult tho.

            and to jump onto my own strongly held opinion, i think 99% of video content is less efficient than simply reading. i'm not a fast reader, its a function of medium---videos gotta juggle audio, visuals and entertainment, a book very often doesn't even need to pretend to entertain. the only thing that might be faster than reading is audiobooks but i have very little experience with those

        • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Luckily I haven't seen much of that sentiment on this site. Such a dumb excuse, though. Like you can listen to audio books or even podcasts if reading is that hard for you.