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I read the news today (oh boy) - Current world events
25 August 2019
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I think sites like Prager are very necessary…….I sincerely hope both win. The more voices the better.

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PragerU is far from the worst. Don’t get me wrong, they’re biased as hell but they’re at least they’re not groping women like Sam Pepper, regularly causing a disturbance like Jake Paul, or abusing their children for views like DaddyOFive.

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Wigwam said
I think sites like Prager are very necessary…….I sincerely hope both win. The more voices the better. 

I don’t think that’s the case in this specific scenario. If members of both the far left and the far right are claiming that YouTube has a political bias, then that actually proves that YouTube doesn’t have a political bias.

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25 August 2019
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Do you find this video threatening?….Or uncomfortable….?

25 August 2019
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How is this relevant to what we are talking about (besides the fact that it’s from PragerU)?

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25 August 2019
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Dark Overlord said
How is this relevant to what we are talking about (besides the fact that it’s from PragerU)?

  

I like it when people ask and then answer their own questions…Reminds me of my old mum!!

25 August 2019
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Just because you show a PragerU video doesn’t make it relevant to the discussion but i digress.

As for the video, i don’t feel threatened or uncomfortable, i just think it’s a load of transphobic nonsense.

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25 August 2019
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On Prager I din’t bring it up……and you commentated before any comment from me on the distaste you feel for the site….So I replied…

Your feelings, your thoughts and truths are fine with me…… up-to-you……I said I felt the more voices the merrier…..I didn’t say, but I feel strongly so I’ll add now that in a left/liberal dominated media…..and in mind of Google’s/You Tube’s consistent suppression of right of centre opinions it’s important to have the balance that Prager sometimes supplies, (though I don’t see that as the case of the video I posted)….. and that it challenges PC conventions that would otherwise go without any consideration that there even could be another another view…..

I thought the comments on ‘truth’ were thought provoking and very far from nonsensical……I do believe that sometimes (maybe not for you) facing up to a truth makes many people feel uncomfortable ….

If we don’t challenge our thinking we’re not thinking.

 

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I’m all for free speech and think that PragerU should have the right to say whatever it wants but YouTube isn’t silencing them, they’re just placing some of their videos on restricted mode, meaning that only the 2% who enable that can’t see their some of their videos. Same thing goes with the LGBT community.

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26 August 2019
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Sorry when you said:

PragerU might just be the worst channel in the history of the website. I’d rather the LGBTQ+ groups lose their case than PragerU win, to be honest.’

…….I must have misunderstood you.

Anyway it seems we mostly agree…….now…..! 

26 August 2019
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I didn’t say that, Quarryman did.

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26 August 2019
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My apologies D.O.

In this  ‘News’ thread i tend to attract a bundle of members who disagree……No idea why!!! Your input went with with that flow…….

Anyway no that’s excuse.

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26 August 2019
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I dislike those channels too, but the level of misinformation and lies they spread combined with the amount of billionaire funding they receive makes them extremely dangerous. They are arguably one of the biggest fake news platforms on the internet. 

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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
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26 August 2019
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Wigwam said
In this ‘News’ thread i tend to attract a bundle of members who disagree……No idea why!!! Your input went with with that flow…….
  

Very few people on this forum are Conservatives. The older members lean Labour/Democrat and the younger members lean Green with a few Libertarians like myself thrown in. But don’t look at it in a bad way, it’s great to have a disagreeing opinion when we have these sorts of discussions.

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I dislike those channels too, but the level of misinformation and lies they spread combined with the amount of billionaire funding they receive makes them extremely dangerous. They are arguably one of the biggest fake news platforms on the internet.

I think there’s a difference between fake news and biased news and i think PragerU would fit more appropriately in the latter.

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26 August 2019
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Dark Overlord said

Wigwam said

In this ‘News’ thread i tend to attract a bundle of members who disagree……No idea why!!! Your input went with with that flow…….

  

Very few people on this forum are Conservatives. The older members lean Labour/Democrat and the younger members lean Green with a few Libertarians like myself thrown in. But look at it in a bad way, it’s great to have a disagreeing opinion when we have these sorts of discussions.

On what basis are you making this assumption?  

  

26 August 2019
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It’s a general observation.

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26 August 2019
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Yeah we did a political compass a while ago and almost No one (who took the test) ended up being conservative

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ahdn_paul_06 I was one of about two people who were right of center, although we only had about eight or so altogether, if I recall. ahdn_george_01

ETA: Also, it looks like the Amazon rainforest fires are not as big a deal as it originally seemed.

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Dark Overlord said 

I think there’s a difference between fake news and biased news and i think PragerU would fit more appropriately in the latter.

They definitely spread unsourced claims and outright lies in their videos, though. There is practically a whole subgenre of youtube videos dedicating to debunking them at this point. The ones I linked are just the tip of the iceberg. 

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KFC’s plant-based ‘chicken’ sold out in five hours

Beyond Meat’s “meat” is good. I like the burger Carl’s Jr. makes with it. 

The Impossible Burger from Impossible Foods is gear too. I’ve had it at two restaurants. I need to try Burger King’s version using the “meat” from Impossible Foods. I bet it is good.

Personally, I hope more chains start offering plant-based versions of their foods.

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