He provides facts then "passes off" drawing conclusions on those facts to his audience, letting the uninformed individual decide what the truth is. He never draws a conclusion from the acts unless it's something unambiguous like child abuse.
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Replying to @WilliamPecota @HandOfPanCocks and
He provides facts then let's the uninformed individual decide what the truth is? If he's providing the facts then they are no longer uninformed individuals and I think it makes sense for a news channel trying to rid bias to leave it to the individual to make their own conclusions
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Replying to @deveyel @HandOfPanCocks and
Assuming that you're completely informed and that your conclusions are the result of being completely informed just because you watched his show is the entire grift behind what he's trying to sell. Usually he says just enough to let people confirm their own biases.
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Replying to @WilliamPecota @deveyel and
It's how he retains his audience, very rarely saying anything to alienate anyone and trying to create impartiality where it doesn't exist. Trying to frame an issue as "both sides are equal" is false equivalence. It ignores that sometimes one side is actually correct.
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Replying to @WilliamPecota @HandOfPanCocks and
Yes, he never says anything of substance. Like in this video where he definitely doesn't take the stance that paid family leave is needed https://youtu.be/pX7tjUc1HNA
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Replying to @deveyel @HandOfPanCocks and
Dude, I just said a couple tweets back that he only chooses sides when he thinks it's unambiguous, like paid family leave or child abuse or some other obvious thing.
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Replying to @WilliamPecota @HandOfPanCocks and
It may seem unambiguous to you but theres a lot of right wingers who don't agree with guaranteed paid family leave
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Replying to @deveyel @HandOfPanCocks and
You say that like it disproves my point. He typically only comes out in support of things absolute morons would oppose, occasionally doing something that could be considered controversial if it gives him centrist cred, like telling people to "look into" Libertarian politicians
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Replying to @WilliamPecota @HandOfPanCocks and
I mean he's kinda a libertarian, so I think he's saying that because he agrees with them, not because it gives him "centrist cred." And yes, it does disprove your point. If he were trying to appease right wingers then he wouldnt make a big video on why paid family leave is needed
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Replying to @deveyel @HandOfPanCocks and
Paid family leave is an unambiguous issue. Much like the Unite The Right rally, the fact that some asshole right-wingers are full of bullshit doesn't change that. I didn't say he's trying to "appease" them, although he often does that too, but rather to not alienate them outright
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The fact that he was more concerned with telling people to check out Gary Johnson over defeating Trump, or even covering what an idiot Trump is, is the tell - it was to create an air of faux-neutrality so as to not alienate Trump voters that he maintains to this day.
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Replying to @WilliamPecota @deveyel and
When in reality, the most neutral, fact-based position, is that Trump is an idiot fascist who should be subject to impeachment by now, and that the only reason he hasn't been is partisan hackery within the Republican Party. That's an unbiased take, without even adding opinion.
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