I first noticed it in the Hitchens “Hitchslap” videos in the mid 2000’s, but I imagine it started out earlier as that when I started following politics and a lot of the videos and those adjacent to them were reposts of cable news shows.

Were Socrates and Plato just the 4th century BC equivalent of them? That’s depressing if true.

  • Preventer79@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    14 hours ago

    I’ve been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that

    When you watched them did you think you were consuming high quality intellectual rhetoric? The idea that most of the people watching them think they are kinda saddens me.