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flubba86@lemmy.world 5 days agoHe is also a staunch Republican, and a Trump supporter. I like some of his videos, but most of them are cringe if you’re actually knowledgeable about the topic he is covering. He researches a topic just enough to come across as the smartest person in the room, while dumbing down concepts and talking down to the audience like we’re infants. You can tell his target audience are poorly educated and easily impressed people from rural America.
I watched this video in its entirety and it made me profoundly uncomfortable.
There was a lot of subtext that seems edited out. Yes he’s “humble” in some respects but he’s also willfully ignorant in others, or at least presents as such.
I would not be surprised if in a few years he goes off the deep end.
I also watched the whole thing, and have to imagine that a lot of xenophobic stuff was edited out when they found out their chainmail from India was actually from China. That section was so cringe, they had someone on earlier who spoke Chinese, why not ask him what it meant or research some more, than make assumptions and air that lightly filtered.
I get he’s making a point to invest in local manufacturing, but then knowingly having the excess supply of chainmail come from India defeats the point he’s trying to make. Considering the handle for the first 2000 are from costa rica and the excess chainmail after the 2000 units was at least thought to be from India, it seems rare anything being sold is 100% Made in America, yet has a price tag 4x as much.
Yea I watched it too and had the exact same response to the Indian chainmail.
He wants to make his product completely in America. Ok sure. He can’t. Ok sucks. Decides he’s actually just trying not to buy any Chinese components instead… ok what?
The other bit I thought that was kinda weird was that if he’s so interested in bringing back this manufacturing capacity to Americans, then, do that.
It’s an entire video about him trying to manufacture something without manufacturing it. Outsourcing every single component to a vendor as long as it’s an American vendor.
You want more people that know how to make tools and dies, hire some dude to do that, make it economically feasible for people to do that by having good stable jobs that do that at your brush factory.
I found the whole video kinda offputting in this way. It sure would be great if he could just magically find this manufacturing capacity sitting idle in America and exploit it to make his brush.
Really ? he is a Trump supporter ? I know him only from his videos, but that seems out of character for someone versed in the sciences and reasoning. Can you provide a source ? I don’t want to support him with views anymore if that’s true
This. I’d be super surprised because he’s an intellectual who likes to understand the hows and whys of things. I really enjoy his content (especially his helicopter series). If he’s maga then I’ll definitely not watch another.
I don’t know what OP is talking about, but the whole premise of this video seems quite trumpian.
The video linked here ? I watched it yesterday, not at all. It’s about manufacturing in the USA. He makes great points that are valid for any service-based economy such as most of western Europe (where I am from). Watch it, it’s good
The premise that countries need to be self reliant and manufacture things locally seems like trump rhetoric to me. But yeah I don’t imagine he’d be a big supporter of Trump more generally with all the cuts to science research Trump is doing. And I didn’t bother watching much further into the video once I realized he was shilling his own product.
How is bringing back foreign manufacturing a MAGA thing?
This is essentially the whole selfhoating community doing the same thing with cloud services. And I wouldnt in my dreams vote for our country equivalent of the republicans.
In the video where he’s shooting antique guns (or something) with his son, his son always calls him “sir”. Is that a regional thing? It seemed super weird to me.
I noticed the same thing, and you could see it a bit in this (OP) video too.
I think this one is partly regional and partly traditional.
Destin probably always called his father sir, and he probably has the same expectation of his children.
Oh, I casually watched his videos and I could tolerate 1 or 2 of these stances but all 3, yeah if that’s true it’s time to unsubscribe
aidan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I pretty strongly disagree with that characterization, at least for the manufacturing videos I watched, that I do have experience in. I appreciate how deferential and humble he is to people in his videos even if they’re showing a job that is relatively unremarkable to most people.
I also think
is a pretty mean spirited and stereotype-based thing to say.
Venator@lemmy.nz 4 days ago
Also his target audience is anyone poorly educated and easily impressed regardless of where they’re from. 😅