Comment by Hank@kbin.social on "Republicans are Dangerous"

In this YT Short, stand-up comedian Steve Hofstetter covers some quick statistics on violent crime rates in Democrat vs Republican-controlled states.

I don’t care about a political analysis from a fucking comedian.

Isn’t this a textbook example of an argumentum ad hominem?

Did the facts hurt your feelings?

I’m a German leftist. However anyone who thinks a comedian posting YouTube shorts is a reasonable source for political insight is a moron.

I’m less concerned with who people learn facts from than with the veracity and balance thereof. If it’s not for you, that’s fine, but there are plenty of people with limited interest in politics that would be willing to listen to a topic that their favorite comedian discusses and reconsider their views on that basis. Gatekeeping politics is how morons keep the greater populace ignorant and disengaged.

You’re right, comedians don’t know anything about politics.

By the way, you ever hear that great comedy routine from that one comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Dude’s hilarious, but he’ll clearly never make it in politics.

Well he’s leading a country and not trying to gain relevance by posting ‘republicans say they good but actually they BAD’-style content.

I don’t know, this content seems backed up with census data… whereas you just sound triggered and emotional.

I think you’re missing the point. One’s profession doesn’t immediately disqualify their message. Nothing Hofstetter says in this video is untrue.

It’s like saying you wouldn’t cash a check written to your name for a million dollars just because you don’t like the type of paper it’s printed on. It’s still a million dollars, and the facts he said are still true. The medium in which it’s conveyed to you is trivial, and ultimately irrelevant, and the fact that you’re so hung up on that particular aspect of it is a little odd.

He’s NOT the source though, just the facilitator.

The source is the statistics he quotes and without checking, I’m pretty sure those are linked in the video description as is common practice.

So what? It’s like pointing out the sky is blue. He got some internet fame a couple of years ago for being good at handling hecklers. This entire video is a pathetic attempt at capitalizing from mindless political outrage and the entire format of the video is nothing more than pandering in the hope that he gets blessed by the algorithm. I don’t disagree with the statement, I disagree with the format.
Most comedians are dumb as shit and we should demand higher quality when we consume political content. A ten year old could make this video (with sources).

You sound unreasonably angry about this, even personally so. Did a comedian sleep with you and never call? Did your wife leave you for a YouTube content creator?

Or are you just a misguided curmudgeon insisting that the medium is more important than the message?

Ad hominem, here we fucking go.

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