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[–] randomname01 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do think there is value in content dunking on others to draw people into leftism, but after a point that audience will move on to more constructive content.

I hope the guy can pivot to other, more positive, relatively surface level topics and videos, because he could definitely be an entry point into leftist (adjacent?) thought for a lot of people.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In this video he spent zero time building up any other philosophy or viewpoints, and just found different ways of saying the subjects of his videos were fucking stupid... over, and over, and over with different levels of anger.

If he is trying to persuade people to be leftist, then this was a miss. If he has a rage filled audience he baits with "outrage" porn for views... fair enough - Though I will say his "analysis" of the subject was seriously flawed, but I don't even want to enumerate it in this post because the anger was so overpowering.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 9 points 1 year ago

I think you're trying to build him up to be something that he's not. What he does in his videos is take ideas that he thinks are stupid and makes fun of them. That's it.

I've watched every Adam Something video over a couple years and occasionally he'll mention something and I'll be inspired to look into it further, but for the most part, he just tells you why he thinks something is shit. Especially Elon Musk projects and my favourite being Dubai.

That said, if you have any channels you could recommend that deliver their message in short, witty videos, please share as I'd be grateful to subscribe.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

"leftists" really struggle with this

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

"dunking" is really just so the in group can laugh. It doesn't draw anyone