Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "OxfordUnion" channel.

  1. I'm not a populist. I think all the really big stuff should require a 2/3 majority.
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  2. Democrats love populism when it means people voting for the party that promises the most Free Stuff. Now, facing the real cost of all the government handouts, the population is turning against the Big Government Octopus, and populism is the worst thing, evar.
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  3. Yes. There's fake news. No, we'll NEVER achieve objective news. The best we can do is support a lively discussion, with multiple sources with multiple biases, and try to approximate the truth by the clash of ideas. As for the legacy media, who are hopelessly stuck in an establishment bubble, let the market do its thing, and they will give way to new media. People are a lot more sophisticated, and they don't want to watch the legacy format, with commercial interruptions and no nuanced conversations. "You've got 15 seconds to wrap it up before we go to break." The breaks are more important to the networks than the content they provide. But it's not the bias that bothers me. It's the pretense of objectivity with tacit and even explicit censorship of facts and opinions that are corrosive to carefully crafted and carefully maintained narratives/world views. "You're a conspiracy theorist if you don't believe our conspiracy theory." In the UK, it's the BBC. In the USA, it's more insidious in that there are 5 or 6 major networks that all speak with the same voice, giving the appearance of many voices.
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