Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Post-Truth: Why Facts Don't Matter Anymore" video.

  1. the US is the perfect example of being polarised by made up news, 45 has deliberately concentrated on dividing opinion and aloowing those opinions, bad opinions, a platform. even the UK has fallen fowl of political manipulation. you aren't aware, juding by your comment, that everyone on the planet disagrees with everyone else on the planet on most subjects, but take me for example, i despise pretty much everyone, but no one notices cos i keep it to myself, and everybody keeps their thoughts to themselves in the main, they get on with the life they have to lead and let other people get on with theirs, never even thinking about differences, until someone like 45, or our government MAKES things an issue. the internet disseminates ideas faster than MSM, but MSM is responsible for highlighting all the differences people have, and those differences then bubble up to the surface and you wind up with the America you have today, everyone hating everyone else, and being noisy about it.
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  2. unfortunately what ANY body requires is honesty and integrity, and both have been whittled away over the last 25 years, we have governments that can't be trusted, and news moguls who have their own agendas. it's hearsts game @if there isn't a war somewhere, start one@
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  3.  @grimshockz6  the problem is that people are looking for confirmation bias, they think up some thought, or hear some opinion, and they look at one source that aghrees and presto, job done. not mamy people are looking to see if their idea can be refuted, this is what the internet could be extremely good for, to see as many points of view, studies, information on your subject of choice and THEN form you opinion, but most people do it the other way round, okay, i'm right, cocoa time.
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  4. and hippie rubbish has ALWAYS been positive, humanitarian and if you recall, about peace and love. if you think hippie rubbish, peace and love is indeed rubbish that makes you a real shitty person. see, normally i would keep that to myself.
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  5. not necessarily, especially in the US at the moment the bad is being highlighted, 45 has used every tool in the box to divide the country on pretty much every issue, he is one bad actor. whether you like obama or not, despite his own personal hypocrisys, he was a good influence, a positive speaker and certainly a better example of a person that 45 will ever be.
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  6. i watched a couple of videos about autralia's incentives to go green and i seem to rcall that over the lifetime of an electric vehicle they not only save you money but they are indeed greener. it appears to have fallen by the wayside but for a time australia had really good incentives, and financial rewards, for green behaviour. governments for some reason want to ruin the planet though. i maintain that if you act as if climate change is real, even if it isn't, you get all the benefits, new tech, cheaper cleaner ebergy, cleaner water, more economical everything, but if you treat it as a hoax, and it's not, you drown or burn. to me it's a logic problem, not a political controversy. we need more scientists in government.
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  7. the internet is the perfect place for confirmation bias. when i look something up i don't stop at the first available answer, if it's something i feel strongly about i'l branch off and look at as many versions as possible, not only looking at information from sources i trust (they can be cross referenced as reliable) but dipping into things i don't trust so much. i think the majority of fact checking that people do though is purely to confirm something they already believe, and one source, or two if they want to pretend they've @researched@ a subject is pure confirmation bias. i caught out neil de grasse tyson on his claim that a baseball sized earth would be perfectly smooth, much as i like NDT i couldn't see how something that casts shadows (of mountains) could be perfectly smooth, whatever size (pictures from space for instance still have shadows, but from space earth looks baseball sized) after two or three searches i found i was right - but even then, being a good skeptic - i wait for more information. 7:23 lies are easier to tell. i can make up crap about any crap, no research, no cross referencing, any idea i want. facts are hard though, and 50% of facts are going to be stuff we don't want to hear, lies are much easier to digest and back to confirmation bias, they don't need much effort. and anyone who lnows the millgram experiments will realise it's ever so easy for humans to do really appalling things with very little persuasion, tell big lies, appeal to the darkness in people, presto! you have murder and corruption.
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  8. he seems a bit off colour in this video, like he didn't really think in advance what he was actually trying to say, and perhaps his audience weren't quite on board either, anyway, normally he does a lot better in presentation.
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  9. i think you just proved that.
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  10. i get into arguments about religion quite a lot and i see bias this way, believers have a clear bias, they are under orders to believe in god, or else. i am atheist, but that doesn't mean i don't believe a god exists, it mean, to me, that i am suspicious of religion, and i argue from a skeptical point of view, him, and me, go by the scientific method, how can i falsify his claim, so although it may look to you that he, and me, have a bias, we don't (within scientific bounds) the trick is to evaluate the truth from as many directions as possible, and particulalry to recognise any bias you might have and try to comepnsate. and if anyone is "tolerant" ie you give them space, then yes, we are on the high ground. and i know nothing about CNN or breibart, other than i don't trust ANY news source, but is it bias, or true, that one reports news while th other reposrts sensationalism?
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