When you converse with westoids you know some of them aren’t dumb as bricks and actually question some things. But when it comes to questioning the mainstream narrative it is like they turn their brains off.

I was watching kurzgesagt and The hated one and they have a few political vids that make you die of cringe. These two very informative channels are fucking braindead when it comes to mainstream narratives. Probably the same case with every other good westoid channel.

Are westerners inherently dumb or something?

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    On kurzgesagt: Just realize they’re part of the funk network, which is essentially the online part of German state television (ZDF and ARD). Naturally you’re only going to find the most milquetoast, acceptable takes on a platform like that.

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      3 years ago

      I didn’t realize that Kurzgesagt was part of German public broadcasting. Of course that means they are perfectly independent, objective, and apolitical. /s

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        You’re gonna laugh and/or think I’m insane, but that’s genuinely what a very very large part of the German population (the audience of kurzgesagt eg) believes.

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          I live in Germany so see that type of anti-communist bs every day as well. What really makes me laugh about German media is all the people who claim that the separate funding of the public broadcasters makes them unquestionably independent from any sort of political influence or bias.