Uncancel Breadtube for a bit this one's pretty good.

  • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You're not wrong, but to be fair to Philotube he was using the topic as a teachable moment to teach actual philosophy and Hbomb has a somewhat successful track record of de-chudding through systematically debunking his opponent's arguments and then appealing to basic human decency through empathy so I can sorta understand why they took the approaches they did, even if they were (as Folding Ideas points out) incomplete.

    • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I've actually grown to liking Hbomb more and PhilosophyTube less and less. Hbomb is definitely a lot more vindictive of just bullying the shit out of the people he covers, while Olie just seems to be purely academic, which doesnt really fit with where I see politics anymore. Like he has a great videos, the one on Marxism and Witchcraft is amazing, but none of his recent stuff even seems interesting.

      • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ollie's video on Marx and Darwin was pretty good, imo. But you kinda need to keep in mind that Philo tube was set up to teach ppl philosophy, so of course he's gonna be academic. Like, you link his videos to your friends from a liberal arts college and pray that they eventually get so thirsty they become Marxists. And if you've moved past his content, that's hella OK too, cos I think a lot of us are kinda past the point of discussing things academically.