What are some of your favorite YouTube information sources?

Douglas Murray is OK.

Mark Steyn in right on target many times. Some times he is the only person to nail it. He can be funny. he recently had a very good two part interview with George Stephanopolous.

Tim Pool is OK.

Jordan Peterson was OK until I realized he was not saying anything. There is no there there. He is mesmerizing but try to remember what he said, besides clean your room. .

Stefan Molynuex was OK but got old.

Red Elephants is good, but a little dragged out at times.

 

He's pretty good for keeping ahead of the "legacy media". He was right there talking about the ebola problem in the congo from seemingly the very beginning. Like Molyneux, he isn't as intelligent as he thinks, but the videos are short and fairly concise.

I give him 1 and 1/2 thumbs up for keeping abreast of the important news. That said, the occult stuff is way out there, so take him with a few grains of salt.

 

I would add that Dan Bongino's podcast is really good if you care about the whole spygate thing. He is terrible at some things like repeating the same idea over and over and over and over, and doesn't think very highly of his audience's ability to understand his point, but he's come up with some really good takes on things that flew past me.

Hmm... Bill Burr's podcast is also pretty good for alternate viewpoints when he's not talking sports or how many rolls of toilet paper he goes through on a given week. He doesn't try to do it, but you gotta hand it to the guy for being fairly right down the middle of the political spectrum. He hates us all equally.

The thing is, for actual "news", the best I can say is give google a try. You inevitably get the usual silicon valley take on things on the first page, but go to the second page and you might be surprised. There's some really interesting stuff happening around the world, and knowing how to search for it, as well as knowing how to read between the ideological lines, there is a lot of gold to be found.

 

Solid argument.... I guess there are alot of "crazy" people leaving traditional media then

 

Appreciate the comments, might take me a while to go through and check the suggested content

 

So does everyone. "I'm better than you"

 

Ahh, sargon...

He's an interesting bloke who got youtube famous during gamergate.

I wouldn't classify him as an intellectual. He is very lucid, but his arguments break down regularly. He says he's for free speech, but thinks that it should be limited... things like that.

 

I forgot one big one.
Paul Joseph Watson. He is a real hoot. Very smart and funny. He got demonetized and maybe deplatformed from some sites.
Here is one about Notre Dame


His most recent, om modernity

 

Same... was too late to edit him in. Huge JPW fan.

 

What is the appeal of these people?

I’m familiar with all but Mark Steyn. Some more than others, none of them have offered much that I find interesting. This is from someone who will read articles from Jared Taylor even though I find the ideology abhorrent.

 

The common link is support of free speech and disdain for 'pathological' progressive thought. About half of them aren't actually conservative, which is interesting in and of itself.

Who're you interested in?

 

They provide arguments to buttress their opinions. Jared Taylor is very good at providing arguments for his particular ideas. You might not like where they lead, but that's irrelevant. Can you find a weakness in them?

The Rachel Maddows of the left don't bother with things like basic premises that can be defended, so they head right into snark-mode so you can never really examine what the snark is based on. If there's some baby that goes to bed hungry at night, Maddow will blame that baby's hunger on the heartlessness required to allow that baby to go to bed hungry. This makes some assumptions, but none that can withstand the light of day, so they don't even try explaining them.

 

Joe Rogan

Jimmy Dore - A true Liberal - Not a blind Leftist Sheep

 

None of those people said anything about detaining journalists for reporting on the “caravan,” or the anti-BDS laws in place within multiple states. You know, actual state oppression of first amendment rights.

They seem more interested in having the capability of saying what they want with no social repercussions. In other words, they want the state to oppress those that disagree with them, and drag the Overton window into their favor.

The last bit, fine, it’s the science of political rhetoric. But their single minded pursuit makes their goals obvious. To pretend some objectivity is to remain ignorant.

I like books; Dickens, Melville, Joyce, Huxley, Orwell. More recent; Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Thomas Frank, Naomi Klein.

I have a short attention span for charlatans and sophists, which I find to be littering their nonsense all over YouTube.

 

His story is pretty interesting too; a would-be progressive who encountered a logic problem.

I have yet to see anyone thoroughly dismantle his positions. In fact, it's rumored that he gave Sargon a spanking, fell asleep early into it though... so will have to re-watch before it's scrubbed.

 

How many left wing people said anything about Lauren Southern being permanently barred from the UK for doing the exact same thing for the refugees headed to europe?

 

I respect your opinion, but the fact is that each of the individuals I've listed have done and continue to do more than you or I... unless you're someone of consequence.

There's a risk to what they do. Financial ruin and ostracization.

 

This entire point is based on the premise that I find Rachel Maddow to be some high alter of journalism. Making the point fall flat on its face immediately.

Taylor’s opinions are largely based on archaic appeals to authority. A hyper-focus on trivial measurements. Ignoring nature for the sake of delusional prospects. And a lack of convincing rhetoric.

What happened to Lauren Southern is bulls—t, but I live in the US, not the UK. And I’m more worried about Americans than buttressed Canadians.

 

Substitute Maddow with anybody you like.

Oh, and what happened to those reporters in Mexico happened in,... Mexico.

Same thing.

I'm not really sure what you mean by Taylor's appeal to authority. I've watched several videos of him destroying people, and never saw anything like that.

 

US journalists were involved.

It is indefensible to claim that anybody you consider “left wing” just spouts nonsense and has never backed up any of the claims they’ve made.

YouTube is an idiot factory.

 

I've been reading at an adult level for well over 3 decades, so the answer to the OP is none - the big zero.

Every youtube video I have seen someone post online is propaganda designed to reinforce an existing position or prejudice. Usually pretty poor propaganda at that. I suppose some people find a combination pretty visuals, dot points, a slowly spoken voiceover or just some guy telling you what you want to hear convincing. I can read a better written & properly referenced article with many times the information in the same time. Such an easy choice.

 

and Lauren Southern is a Canadian journalist. It doesn't matter where they are from. That goes for those journalists who were said to be helping the caravan in Mexico. I think the distinction between helping and reporting is vital, but have no evidence that those journalists were helping the caravan, so all need to be defended.

I said that left wing journalists seem to lack any foundational premises. The right wing guys say they're for natural rights. What are the left wing journalists basing their bias upon?

 

Do these people offer information or opinions? I’m betting the latter.

 

Who doesn't cbs nbc abc offer opinion by only covering the parts of the story that are beneficial to their narriative. It's called lying by ommission
Like this thread turned into people trying to show off how smart they are because their sources are just facts and there couldn't be any biases in their sources.

 

Like if your whole goal was to virtue signal how smart you are why even post in here? There is no form of media that doesn't have bias either through what is said or written or by what isn't said or written. So this they're all idiots and my sources are great is just I am very smart material. Congrats you decided to pigeon hold in a conversation how smart you are