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[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

What are the source news outlets? I only got about ninety seconds into it because watching this kind of thing is physically painful to me. I expected him to put the sources up front like journalists do - "A new study leaked to the Birmingham Gazette-Urinal reports that..." - but I guess that's not how smug YouTubers do things.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

"I didn't watch it but thought I'd criticise anyway" 🙄

It's normal for people to trust "anonymous sources" and nobody gives a shit. But when someone repeats a story from a news outlet that isn't favourable to their ideology, then suddenly the burden of proof is on them.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Of course I didn't watch the whole thing. I don't know why anyone would.

Apparently you did, so - why not just answer my question? If he eventually drops his sources, what are they? I'd like to read them, not get some extended paraphrase by some smug piece of YouTube shit.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

You say that but you don't even bother trying to find the sources to prove it either.

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I saw something I considered completely implausible.

I gave the guy 90 seconds to at least give me one single reason to find it plausible, or one single source to evaluate.

He failed. Now I'm done with him.

If you'd like to help him out, I'm all ears.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

An oppressive government preparing a hypothetical plan to relocate those they are oppressing to a continent brainwashed into accepting migrants as their 'best case scenario', seems pretty plausible to me.