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

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

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Did the facts hurt your feelings?

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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