He doesn’t research or source anything. It’s the laziest gift ever.
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DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 month ago
Surprising to see so many on lemmy not watch the video, or recognize that it is by Second Thought.
I watched this video earlier today and it didn’t contain any particularly new or insightful information for me, but that’s almost entirely because I’ve been somewhat politically active for a while, which I don’t think is strictly his target demographic at this point.
Second thought’s videos were very uncomfortable but informative when I was first learning about socialism.
Again, just surprising to me that they aren’t more popular in this online space.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 month ago
He calls out citations for claims in the video
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not really. He calls out headlines for news articles for actions that happened but not for his main claims.
First ten seconds in and he’s full of shit.
His claim is a conspiratorial garbage that “it’s by design”. This claim is never backed up by evidence. It has been debunked thousands of time and anyone that still spews it is doing it intentionally. This guy is 100% on the anti - establishment grift that is so popular on YouTube.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 month ago
Because it is propaganda shit
Promoting socialism is fine. “Promoting” socialism by kneecapping Democrats, airing “pro socialism” content which will have as its sole and only impact in the actual real world, to give aid and comfort to people who are actually trying to destroy socialism (like, very literally, in the sense of shooting socialists with real bullets), and cloaking in it this veneer of “oh yeah it makes perfect sense because the opponents of the socialism-shooters aren’t doing ENOUGH and so it makes total sense to focus energy on damaging them, instead of on, idk, promoting socialism and socialist outcomes,” is less fine.
Hope this helps explain the difference
DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 month ago
I really feel like you replied without watching the video because none of that is from the video.
The video explains what a sacrificial villain is in the context of a two-party partisan legislator, expands on why this is necessary in modern politics, then encourages the viewers to continue to support more progressive Democrats so that the strategy is more difficult to pull off successfully without alienating large populations of voters.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 month ago
That is accurate yes. I've watched Second Thought videos before, and I'm familiar.
The fuck it isn't. I decided it was probably unfair for me to get into too much of a back and forth about the video without having any idea what's in it, even though I am highly confident that it's shit. So, I grabbed the transcript quickly and asked ChatGPT to summarize the whole thing in bullet points. That way I can still switch away quickly and hurt it with the algorithm.
Here's what it came up with:
Bullshit. The student debt cancellation in particular is transparently false to blame on Biden since he tried to do much more than the rest of the system (the Supreme Court in particular) allowed him to do.
I listed some key accomplishments above. I actually am fairly content with how accurately I guessed what kind of transparent bullshit and Biden-blaming and failing to recognize important stuff he actually did accomplish, was in this video.
Now it gets interesting:
If this was the core of the video, it'd be grand. "How do we get rid of the Manchins of the world" sounds great. "How do we blame Biden for anything and make sure we don't vote for Democrats" is guaranteed to make things worse. Like I say, I'm actually fairly happy with how well I was able to determine what was in the video just from the thumbnail, title, and what channel it's from.
Yeah. More good stuff. It's a big problem. Let me guess - the solution is not to vote for
BidenHarris.Yeah. All of this stuff is pretty bad.
Honestly? If this video was being made in 1995 or 2004, it'd be great. Since then we've moved on to an actually progressive Democrat in the White House, against all fuckin odds, and the Republicans have moved on to actually wanting to shoot all the Democrats, let alone what they want to do to the socialists.
Accurate yes
Yawn
DaleGribble88@programming.dev 1 month ago
So, I was right that you didn’t watch the video, and instead of watching the video, you STILL did not watch the video. And you STILL don’t know what the core of the video is about because AI is shit at summarizing stuff like this. It wants to present a list of talking points, but does not know how to emphasize important parts or highlight which parts were focused on the longest.
I don’t have the time to debunk all of this gish-gallop. The main points are that what you identified as “If this was the core of the video, it’d be grand” and “More good stuff” - IS the core of the video - taking up, a roughly estimated, 15 minutes of the 21-minute video runtime. Your speculation that “The solution is not to vote for Biden/Harris” is incorrect, as the actual call to action was to be more active in Democratic primaries. (Specifically calls out George Ladimer vs Jamal Bowman in New York as an example).
Yeah, pretty much exactly what I said in my original comment. Most of this video is providing historical context and explaining how the modern American political-economic system works.