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I enjoy Knowledge Fight. Focuses on analysis and crit of the right wing grifter sphere, particularly Alex Jones.
I like knowledge fight but Dan is, to be far too charitable, far too charitable.
I've never seen somebody spend so much time observing without drawing the obvious conclusions.
He's spent 10s of thousands of hours listening to the far right and still wildly understates their danger.
I rember on a recent one where Jones was talking about how we should be executing Trans people and Jordan said something along the lines of "he doesn't care if these people actually get killed he'd be happy to see it happen maybe he doesn't wanna personally pull the lever but he'd fully support the person who did" and Dan's response was basically "aww shucks I don't think he's that extreme I think it's a character"
Yeah, that's the big problem with Knowledge Fight. On some level I don't really understand how they cover this much ground for that long and still maintain that sort of detachment. A little too prim and proper.
I honestly would want to see something like it, but with Matt just sitting there getting angry as shit like with the McArdle article the whole time. Something with some pathos to it.
Dan occasionally does get that proper vim in him, but otherwise I agree.
Dan, I'm not sure how he stays detached. Jordan I think has gotten more detached from his anger and fear over these things, and I think it's his insane number of hobbies and all the vacations he's taken.