I hate arguing and I will fight you on that one! ;)

I don’t know anything about this pressure campaign you mentioned but do they still work with them? It’s not like Kurzgesagt have no say over what the Gates Foundation does. If they still work together then that’s not great but the Gates Foundation has also done lots of good stuff too, no? Idk what outweighs what but I think there are organisations that are far worse that we should be concerned about.

I mean, Linus’s video about a fire truck toy was a gag and that was ages ago. The gags have always been big parts of the videos.

If you want pure information and performance metrics, ltt isn’t the place to go for sure. But not every video needs to be dense on plots and performance metrics. They didn’t even start out doing that, they transitioned to that from doing unboxings. He’s said himself they aren’t doing that on the main channel anymore cause others have carved that niche for themselves.

They definitely do more shovelware content these days but unfortunately it does seem to be what big creators do to stay relevant

Almost the first half of the video is them saying we haven’t been meeting any climate change targets.

I don’t think it’s copium to highlight the good things that have been changing like the fact wind and solar are straight up the cheapest energy sources. If there was no good news they wouldn’t have made the video

Tbh, they always had the gags in their videos. I think the do make some really informative and interesting content. Especially their tours of factories or other industrial equipment.

Where they have irked me is with their reaction style videos or their ‘top things to buy for whatever holiday’. Whilst they can be entertaining, it is low effort content that often isn’t that great. I wish they didn’t do them and did more reviews rather than just doing unbox+ on short circuit

What video do they deny climat change in? If anything, I find their videos explain the concepts of how it’s happening and what it will result it (bad shit) super well.

Imo, I respect them cause they are transparent with the comunity. Of they make a mistake, they will reupload a video of required. Few other channels (especially as big as them) would do that

So your solution is change the whole system so you can buy a dumped Chinese car without any guilt?

Whilst I agree the system is broken, buying dumped goods only makes the situation worse as it means those players and playing on an uneven playing field

Not again… unzips

I really hope this trend pulls through. Tbh, it’s my main reasoning for keeping calm about the whole situation.

Hopefully in 20 years we can look back and say that the 2020’s were a crazy time. And not that mechaTrump is living in his nuclear bunker after he caused the world to nuke itself over some mexican immigrants or some shit like that. Would be nice 😁

Thank you, this covers everything I could have thought of!

No tolerance however ends up at the same point.

It’s not like we know this person has Nazi tattoos or even what their views are. Maybe they literally just asked a question. If they do have Nazi tattoos, they can fuck off. If they think anyone who doesn’t identify as strait is a bad person, they can fuck off. If they believe the q-anon conspiracys without question, they can fuck off.

But untill we talk to someone (assuming they are not visibly showing their extreme views like in your bar tender example) it literally doesn’t make sense to judge people based on the information OP has provided. If more information comes out, I am open to changing my opinion, but for now I think you are being intolerant of people joining this platform simply because they ask for something that is not as left wing.

I think your core message is completely true. But imho, probably this is what op is talking about with people yelling at their friend. Taking such a forceful stance will push those that are unsure away which is the exact opposite of what we need.

With that said, the fact that you just assumed their stance on politics from a generalised complaint of ‘my friend got yelled at’ is completely unfounded, unfair, and definitely will push away anyone who would consider themselves moderates. Baseless clames is literally how trump became elected and that’s not a good foundation for someone to get elected on

Very true, we need everyone to be open minded. Both those on the platform but also those coming in. I hope the comunity can keep the discourse constructive. Hope you can enjoy the platform!

I think it’s unfair to just assume they are far right cause they are American. Right wing? Sure. More likely to be far right? Also sure. This doesn’t mean we should not welcome them and then try to show them that their specific view points are unfounded (or maybe ours are, there’s the point of discussion). Not just assume they are Nazis when they just ask why people here seem different to them

Just joined and the community already seems pretty vibrant. It honestly doesn’t feel that different from Reddit in that regard which is perfect. Reddit and the rest of them can fuck off