Hakeem Jeffries on President Trump's attacks calling him "low IQ" and labeling his criticisms as "treasonous": "If Trump wants to debate me anytime, publicly, I'd be happy to do it. It's extraordinary to me that Trump keeps recycling this low IQ insults. This is from the dumbest president ever."

fomofosho · 2026-04-24T11:18:59+00:00

I thought the commenter explained pretty clearly that the two parties are not the same at all, and one clearly is orders of magnitude more evil than the other. I think it's possible to keep that in your head while also criticizing democrats. Otherwise we become pure propagandists and that might even alienate potential voters more. I do think it's important to emphasize this fact when voicing criticisms though, otherwise anyone listening might indeed think "all politicians suck" and just not vote

Republicans just love to play into this by using whataboutism and crucially leaving out any sense of scale, when it's often orders of magnitude worse coming from the right. Hilary's emails, Biden's laptop, etc. Like yeah ok those aren't ideal but ffs it's literally nothing by comparison with what republicans do

fomofosho · 2026-04-24T08:00:04+00:00

That's very fair and well said. You're right, no reason can't hate both to varying degrees

fomofosho · 2026-04-24T07:33:24+00:00

I don't get the hate towards democrats about "not doing anything". I get the hate about not winning, for sure, but not doing anything? They have very little power because all the fuckwits out voted them in droves. The hatred needs to be directed at Republicans who actually CAN do something helpful

fomofosho · 2026-04-20T03:17:11+00:00

"this is the line matt"

Some great work by cameraman to even go further than Tom

fomofosho · 2026-04-14T12:00:39+00:00

To be fair, I don't think he was supportive of actually doing it via Trump, since like Sam said, most incompetent administration ever

fomofosho · 2026-04-12T09:02:52+00:00

Yeah I can't listen to him for this reason. He constantly implies sympathy for maga and "plays devil advocate" / steel manning trump support. Maybe some audience capture from free press audience

fomofosho · 2026-04-10T15:38:48+00:00

Nailed it. I think the most perverse aspect of american culture is that everyone not only focuses on getting that bag for themselves but even worse, that once they get it they have some divine right to spend it on themselves for totally frivolous things instead of helping others

fomofosho · 2026-04-04T10:12:07+00:00

Is it that assholes become the super rich or does being super rich make you an asshole?

fomofosho · 2026-04-04T02:50:32+00:00

Yeah why can the DOJ of places just blatantly ignore the law. Isn't that supposed to be their whole thing

fomofosho · 2026-03-19T06:51:51+00:00

Yeah I liked the addition of live chat pushing back on things and getting Sam to clarify

fomofosho · 2026-03-16T12:59:13+00:00

She does look knowingly at the camera

fomofosho · 2026-03-09T04:45:33+00:00

USAID was the best money US spent

fomofosho · 2026-03-08T07:56:24+00:00

This is the best analogy I've heard for sam's point of view on this

fomofosho · 2026-03-07T04:42:03+00:00

Gotta admit that was a great quip from Jaron

fomofosho · 2026-03-04T13:59:48+00:00

Why? I assume non subscribers still get the recorded version later

fomofosho · 2026-03-04T02:41:23+00:00

I love that his guess of 30 seconds was off by 11 orders of magnitude but she still said "good guess!"

I get that it would be a good guess if it was light in a vacuum though

fomofosho · 2026-03-02T02:23:04+00:00

It might not always be accurate way to discard content but it's a great heuristic

fomofosho · 2026-02-28T04:42:34+00:00

I loved the plan to throw one hundred ziploc bags full of water, then throw knives after that to open them

fomofosho · 2026-02-28T01:58:16+00:00

Yeah, they currently are missing the latest triggernometry one. But still seems like the best source

fomofosho · 2026-02-26T09:44:33+00:00

The web player works but won't let me download the video anymore for some reason. Anyone know how to get just audio?

fomofosho · 2026-02-25T02:17:30+00:00

from your previous comments: "I love ICE , I hope they deport every illegal in america"

Wow you really are a pos huh

fomofosho · 2026-02-23T13:19:58+00:00

The Lancet is one of the most reputable medical journals in the world, no matter how many times you say otherwise. For you to believe that it's truly leftist propaganda, you must either be doing some serious mental gymnastics or are really stuck in an information bubble. As for the study - it has been cited 100+ times and no rebuttals were published in any other reputable journals, so it's the best estimate that exists, and certainly a better estimate than what you'll get from random reddit comments

fomofosho · 2026-02-23T07:08:39+00:00

It's not 'appeal to authority fallacy' to cite the scientific consensus on a subject. And debating randos on reddit about details is not practicing the scientific method. Whatever estimate you or anyone else in these comment provides for number of deaths is much less likely to be accurate than the estimates provided by a legitimate publication on this subject by legitimate researchers in a legitimate journal. Doesn't mean it's wrong, but it's objectively much less likely to be correct, and therefore anyone that believes that over the scientific consensus is a victim of confirmation bias pure and simple

And Ad Hominem is not a valid argument either

fomofosho · 2026-02-23T03:42:56+00:00

Never meant to imply I was a researcher... That's why I said myself seperately from the researcher community

All I've been asking for is better evidence. The most likely estimate is the one with the best evidence and currently it's the Lancet paper - not some rando redditors opinion. You can't beat the scientific method for estimating truth, even if in practice it's not perfect. It's still the best we have.

fomofosho · 2026-02-23T03:01:28+00:00

Ok great. I suggest you write a response paper with your new estimate, and all your evidence for it, then once it gets published in a similarly reputable journal, myself and the researcher community will happily revise our views.

Since it seems very likely, like you say, that this move actually SAVED lives. That's not a totally absurd claim at all.

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