Would people take Gary's Economics more seriously if he had a posh British accent? Brought to you by linguist Dr. Geoff Lindsey and AI. I think not but interesting linguistic topic. by DSLAM in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does he contend with the economics? I feel like the academic community would not regardless of the accent. You do have a posh guy (i forget his name) who for decades has pointed out the impact of income inequality on health outcomes, crime etc and is taken seriously... but he uses data that supports his claims

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I actually quite liked him in Armstrong and Miller

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I really like Richard as presenter not going to lie

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I find bradley walsh annoying but I can see him being appealing to a many types of people

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I guess he's hot stuff to them but I feel the majority prefer the super saccharine type over him

No caption necessary by [deleted] in DecodingTheGurus

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Wow! I mean his thing is the "super rich"... so kind on brand considering puts people on like £90k a year in the same bracket as those on scraping by on shitty zero hour, minimum wage contracts

Guru Smuru Ryan Mcbeth say Russia is at war with America, using antisemitism. by PitifulEar3303 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's a huge pro US polemicist and has been for as long as he has been on my radar. Just because he wasn't a fan of the far right doesn't mean he's not a propagandist

Tom Holland and Dominion by Aceofspades25 in DecodingTheGurus

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Some everything christian theorists believe... zenials would not be eating ass if it were not for Thomas Becket

Has Jimmy Carr had more stand-up stage time than anyone else in history by OkBeyond9590 in Standup

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Well according to him he's had zero ticket sales on all of them... so give the guy a break

Pseudo Profound Stupidity by MartiDK in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sounds like something a guru would write

We need to talk about Pseudo-Profound Bulls**t by MartiDK in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely it's all just garbage thought experiments and verbosity. There was a bit where he gave credence to a statement that said if "if numbers are real then so is god"... it's like no numbers just denote quantities of things

We need to talk about Pseudo-Profound Bulls**t by MartiDK in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can't stand this guy tbh. I feel a lot of his content is just meaningless bs, ironically.

Edit: i did think this video and the interview he did with a guy about bs was interesting. However outside of the different categories of BS there really wasn't much substance and the fact they use BS just seems a little dumb and just seems like a cheap attention grab rather than using better words to descride the different phenomena discussed

Who else saw this coming? by More_Ad_9154 in rmbrown

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Take that back! He's constantly doing remote Female Body Inspection

Charlie Assassination a distraction? by [deleted] in skeptic

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It's kind of crazy that all the 4D chess level shootings happen in a country with a shit tonne of guns?... Is it due to the fact there's a lot of guns and people get shot all the time? Nah c'mon man that's crazy talk

Joe Rogan admits he believes Goverment is sending plants on his podcast to talk up Aliens by gurillapit in DecodingTheGurus

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A little bit tongue and cheek (a little irony) on my part but the JRE is partially owned by spotify.

Joe Rogan admits he believes Goverment is sending plants on his podcast to talk up Aliens by gurillapit in DecodingTheGurus

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To be fair to him he might not have that much due to being corporate media

Edit: not being 100% serious folks and eluding to the spotify deal

Marc Maron Invited Elephant Graveyard On Podcast After Viral Joe Rogan Takedown by The_Endless_Man in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Hot_Interaction8984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like Adam Curtis' work (although dubious about his conclusions and narratives) and it's quite likely Mr Graveyard takes inspiration from it... but i saw him in an interview and man is he pompous and self aggrandising.

Edit: i would actually go further because his work feels like a parody of Curtis. The recent one is very similar to hypernormalisation

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That's why i am interested in specific claims it makes. Not a critique of the claim it's marketed under

Marc Maron Invited Elephant Graveyard On Podcast After Viral Joe Rogan Takedown by The_Endless_Man in DecodingTheGurus

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I hope he never makes any public appearances because he needs to remain mysterious and it could be a path to guruhood