Really though.

I prefer Tim's stuff just because he tends to get more details than everyone else.

Tim _tries_ to be neutral in a wrong way (if that makes sense to you)

Whether intentionally or unintentionally.

There's always little details and tidbits that end up getting lost with other people that tim reminds us of. Which is always nice to have.

I follow some people that are pro-left. I still prefer that than to _try_ to be neutral

Only problem i have with tim is that he sometimes becomes the story

Nothing against Tim though

..Explain?

when he zooms into the cat, the cat becomes the story, case closed 😛

Also what pro-left things do you follow? I find it hard to trust pretty much anyone from that end these days.

Oh also. Can someone confirm that tim actually has an instagram account for his cat?

Kyle Kullinsky? that guy from Secular Talk

I followed the link on one of his videos and I still can't confirm.

no clue how to write his name

Tim isn't hard on the left when they are wrong, because he tries to be neutral. Same thing for the right

wrong and right is a matter of perspective though

Tim chooses to „see the good intentions“ so to speak

seen the latest pewdiepie video .. basically saying hes just a hat merchant now?

thats what Tim needs to be

a beanie merchant

Tim needs to sell beanie babies

https://1d4chan.org/images/6/6c/Finking_wiz_siantz_2.jpg

How much do you think this would go for?

afaik, Tim just explains the situation and doesn't presume malice,

to say he's "not hard on the left" is basically like those people that say Dave Rubin isn't hard enough on his guests,
You don't have to hound someone jsut because you disagree with them. Let them have their side, and have viewers decide for themselves

That's Emily's cat, Betsy.

cultarally appropriate the fishermen

..Who's emily?

@Dr.Wol on some things, _wrong_ is really clear for both sides

the gal who he does the culture war podcast with

The.. person who liked far cry 5 or was that someone else?

I think she said something about liking far cry 5

@.B And he shows that and lets you decide, would you rather have him be like CNN going "You're bad for X, you should be ashamed, everyone join us/me in shaming this person" and basically just hating on someone?

^

imo, news should just be like Tim tries to do it, report the situation, elaborate on both sides, and let people decide for themselves,
And give the bad people a noose to basically hang themselves with

I think everyone should hate on count duckula. Broccoli sandwiches are disgusting 😁

Yep, she did a review of Far Cry 5. It's on Subverse.

I think Tim should do "Bean News" in which he gives news from the perspective of his beanie

😛

@Dr.Wol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSuYQ0mYUE&feature=youtu.be&t=25s For some inexplicable reason I imagine it to sound something like this.

thats exactly what it should be like

But yeah. More completely deadpan news sources would be nice. But that's its own category and I can't seem to find those.

I used to know one but he got a wee bit too anti-vax for my tastes.

Stopped being for legitimate reasons and turned into, yeah.

i dont think you have to be dead-pan ... philly D is pretty good IMO

Ehhh. I try to watch him from time to time but I really can't for anything more than a few minutes per week.

His coverage just feels too.. mainstream I guess?

@Dr.Wol let me give you an example, you can be a trump supporter and say where he fucked up. Both sides agree that it was a fuck up, they usually just don't agree on the "why".

I don't need to hear about trump controversy #13894819384, #1387491834 and #198491384 all in the same week. Nor do I need to hear about hollywood story #3498728374 and celebrity #394813948 not getting on with #394823984.

And that's what a lot of what defranco focuses on.

Being of one side doesn't mean you can't be honest when your side's fucks up

Especially when it seems like he's shining lights on non-stories just because people are talking about them.

I don't watch defranco

just as I don't watch h3h3

aside for the ocasional video when other youtubers point them out

h3h3's podcast is neat though.

I dont like to make definitive claims without proof

and legally I cant accuse the left of malice

if I said NBCnews IS lying about JBP on purpose I can get sued into oblivion

but Im also not to claim that its even my opinion because if I dont have proof why bother

all it does is sow division

I think we're at critical mass for dividsion

no way

when regular folks are beating people in thr street then yea

but right now its small factions

I don't know.. with kanye on tmz

that's pretty people in the street

haah yea that was crazy

kanye is going to start CW2

"Hey dude, I wanna hug you right now, I love you man"

>if I said NBCnews IS lying about JBP on purpose I can get sued into oblivion
that's the problem imo, the ones that state that and say that it's an opinion are free to say what they think

sure, they aren't always right and even if obvious, as a journalist you can't say it

well libel and slander are specifically NOT covered by free speech

he can't dothat

especially as a journalist

but that's why people prefer more opiniated people right now

that's the whole reason I started to watch Sargon back in the day, he would cross the same news from different sources and formulate a conclusion on the facts with the known information and his opinion on it

it's like looking at Fake News and not being able to call them on it because there's no "proof" of malicious intention and fear of being sued for it

uh... just watched the robin hood trailer...

theres no proof of malice

Im not going to make shit up

loads of people with either American accents or southern English accents.... not a single Nottingham accent... or even close to it 😦

damnd

hbomberguy and contract points with almost 3x the patrons I have

contra*

it pays to be a hard partisan

doesnt rubin have like .. 50k a month or something on patreon?

yea but he has like 650k subs

contra has 99k

sweet .... do whatever hes doing 😛

I have 164k

maybe its the suit.. have you thought about trying a suit?

You picked hard mode. Good on you, really.

tbh I have not seen anything contra does... whats his shtick?

sorry... her ... watching latest vid now...

very.... theatrical...

ok so basically a communist?

yep

errrrmmm she tried to defend identity politics ... the most highly effective tool of the nazis... apart from that.. meh

its 1am... sargon is doing a livestream... does he sleep?

I'm pretty sure everyone that bases their career on youtube has one sleep problem or another. haha

maybe Tim needs one of these weekly shows like sargons "this week in stupid"

but more news related... like... "this week last decade" ... pull out some stories from this week 2008 ... show some of the contrasts of stories then and now? how we were wrong or right about some stories? .. just spitballin

people often say how we have regressed so much recently.. but Im sure all these regressive stories were just as bad back then

I think Tim sees himself as a reporter more than a opinion writer and something like that would be a purely opinionised work

we do that on the podcast

we have a discussion about the stories of the past week

ah fair enough 😛

otherwise it would be the same as my daily episode just three stories instead of one

http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/malcolm-controversial-islamic-groups-receive-canada-summer-jobs-grants

Just listen to the mcdonalds story on T3 of May 2.
I feel key information was left out.
So, how was the replacement burger?

lulz https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/992201083714985984

I take it "the feed" is basically like the onion?

These days it's hard to tell.

there is no way on earth this is serious

If you're talking the content, I'm sure there are feminists that truly believe women should receive no jail time for violence against men.

oh and its about austrailian prisoners ... from the country that brought us prisoner cell block H .. and the recent remake... errr... the name of the prisoner.. bugger whats it called?

wentworth

I'm not familiar with either series, unfortunately.

a show where a woman staddles another woman and cuts out her tongue... several throat slashings

Seems tame today but I'm guessing that was shocking back in the 80's.

thats in the recent remake

"The Feed" appears to be some kind of Vice clone hosted by Australia's SBS network.

Ah, so it's "serious" news then.

Not news as such, but yes it is serious.

I think someone there is trollin

We're talking about it, so wacky shit like this gets eyeballs.

But does that mean as much anymore with ad blockers so wide spread? Before they could scrape some income with sensationalism but does it get them much more than ridicule now?

heh.. so elections are over and Conservative made gains in the Uk

twittersphere is dumbfounded "how can this happen"

"all our polls showed 100% of ppl wanted labour"

so out of touch

Adblocking solutions on mobile devices are limited, and viewership from mobile devices is often the majority these days (though it varies considerably from site to site)

Does that mean that Brexit will start moving forward?

doesnt really affect brexit

since both parties have to be "pro brexit" after the ref

I never consider mobile since I hate using my cellphone. Desktop all the way for me if I can help it.

pc master race

Use it as a portable router if you have to.

That said, tablet operating systems are starting to push towards more of a generalised / desktop user experience so you *might* be lucky in the near future.

Itd be better if we had options for looking at ads or not. Or like, give people the ability to watch an ad for like, the behind the scenes or whatever

Incentive program

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018/05/04/opinie-el-hammouchi-othman-de-opmars-van-cultureel-links/

opinion piece in the belgian news
going against cultural marxism, extreme left, etc etc
from a born in belgium but genetic maroccan even
mind you, the opposing opinion was also featured a couple days earlier on the same site

interesting... looks like SAA and SDF are flanking ISIS...

Joe rogan had abby martin on talking bad about vice's coverage of venezuela and ukraine of which I was a major part of

Joe is even friends with shane and he has abby on knocking our coverage

is there a url link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5GFbVt5VU

sounds like joe watches a lot of Vice

my response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5GFbVt5VU&lc=UgzTpGioVhma8SwggTV4AaABAg

I wonder what Russia offered the FSA to not only surrender... but theyre now helping put up Russian flags in N.Homs

scroll to comments

mis-spelled good

Oh boy the very first comment under yours is uh.

Something else.

hmm I gave it a thumbs up... about a minute later refreshed... its on 0 :/

@wacka That ISIS pocket near the Iraq border contains a bridge over the Euphrates. Important since the one in Deir ez-Zor has been destroyed.

So it's not so much the SAA and SDF teaming up to kill ISIS so much as them both trying to push out remnants to capture the bridge.

theres a rumour that a staged chemical attack has been in the works since April 23rd in Dier Ez-zor

not sure how credible it is... it was from a russian source

but if we see one in the near future...

Quite possible. SAA failed to make any headway after they crossed near there, and their pontoon bridge was destroyed. They might be preparing to gas the SDF (since their conventional advance failed), and then claim the SDF gassed themselves as a false flag.

Maskirovka.

There are so many layers of deception in anything the Russians say or do that even they have a hard time parsing it.

I look at the motive though... the SAA and SDF have only had minor clashes.. it would be silly to make them a majorr enemy now

and also get another strike from the allied coalition

Why? SAA has basically recaptured every other part of the country. To make any further advances they either have to clash with SDF or Turks.

They can't just sit idle when they're winning.

but SDF is taking care of ISIS in that region... theyd be better off heading south... or north to idlib

ISIS is basically dead as a conventional force.

I see that Turkey is now occupying a huge chunk of northern syria

in their "operation olive branch"

That little pocket that both sides are spit-roasting is their last piece of inhabited territory.

Erdogan: "we're going to create a safe zone in Syria... by killing everyone in sight"

He needs an external enemy.

Erdogan?

Yes. And there are Kurds on that side of the border.

what do you think will happen in 2021?

When there is a new leader in Syria

Too far out to predict anything in such a mixed up chaotic situation.

I mean literally Assad cannot run for office...

because of the ammendments parliament made to the constitution in 2012

whereby a president can only run for two 7yr terms max

I don't think laws are going to stop anyone here.

I guess he got round the loophole in 2014 by saying the amendment is new .. so this is his "second" term

if he goes against the syrian constitution he will lose all credibility

he was lucky enough to find 4 parties for form a coalition with him to get the 168 seats in parliament he needed

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/992376232389042177

it looks like maybe Russia will concentrate on the north east while Syria handles the south east... its getting close to Israel tho... he wants to be careful

Tim you should go along with it 😛 .. change your name to Bond, Tim Bond

There's a possible flash point between the Russians and the Turks in that heavy bombardment of Al Lataminah area is rather close to a new Turk FOB near Morek, astride the main road north. Assuming the SAA takes the Al Lataminah, they'll have to deal with Turks next - either diplomatically or militarily.

I think until they get most of syria locked down... they should just concentrate of stopping any incursions into Aleppo, but who knows whats on their minds

any rebels they've ever beat they sent them all to Idlib... I imagine thats an extremely overcrowded place right now... and Assad let them keep all their personal weapons

Hey Tim, Fancy a trip to Idlib? 😛

Don't tell me... your submarine car is currently on the fritz

There are virtually no western journalists in the entire country.

First of all it's a meat grinder for anyone near areas of active fighting. Second of all no one wants to let randos cross the border. Getting in is extremely difficult as is not dying.

Which is a shame as it means when stuff like the recent missile strike happens no one has any hope of getting the truth of the matter. You just have to decide which narrative you like best.

haha, Tim works for Fox now apparently 😛

Congrats on the new position, Tim!

she isnt even arguing

and she argued against herslef

herself

I'm still not entirely sure who abby martin is but my experience of joe rogan has been that he's fine until he gets into debates with people he doesn't like or disagree with him.

Then it just gets emotional and he starts tripping up. Basically I kinda figured this would be a disaster from the getgo.

she used to have an RT show called breaking the set

shes pro russia pro venezuela

Boy oh boy.

she criticized Russia while hosting a show on RT and got a guest spot on CNN

gained tons of followers

we were friends but shes pro venezuela antifa

so

is media roots basically just her?

Okay, I'm on like, no sleep at all right now but tl;dr, Tim's being accused(slandered?) by Joe Rogan, a conservative comedian and Abby Martin, a.. socialist(?) 'journalist' so any and all attempts at defending himself is basically going to end up as a shitshow on social media regardless of how he puts it.

Or at least, that's how I'm reading it.

is there a good replacement for the verge and gizmodo? ... like basically .. exactly how those sites were... but like.. a few years back

So, basically just tech news and the like without the bullshit politics?

Or at the very least, if there were politics it wasn't emotional rhetoric?

basically

Are you okay if I basically gave you nothing but youtubers?

I can always check em out

I got banned from the verge 😛

Well they're all a bit more specialised than the sites you listed but. JayzTwoCents, Louis Rossmann and Level1Techs all immediately come to mind.

The last one focuses on tech news more than the first two but the first two definitely either have some serious insight into things. News just isn't their main focus.

I like science news too

I haven't really dug into the site yet but I've been following torrentfreak for years too.

Everything I gave you is primarily based around technology and the like.

Where the focus is more on information than entertainment.

the verge did a story about the first male penis transplant... which is amazing science, I'm totally psyched about stuff like that... but in the comments I made an ... well.. ok unfunny joke... saying "if he masturbates, does that make him gay" ... so they banned me 😛 fair enough i guess

but they dont mess around ... no warning, no removal of the post with a caution .. just straight up immediate ban

There's also uh.. Dave Cullen of Computing Forever (another youtube channel) who I find ends up being insightful when he *does* talk about technology and the like.

Though he's a conservative who usually talks about things relating to politics soooo YMMV.

yeah ive seen some of his videos

no offense intended
but @wacka you arent valuable enough for them to waste their time to check if you will be a good boi from now on.. and yes it makes him gay, unless the penis originally came from a trap, in which case he would be 100% streight

straight?

Mmmmm.

whatever

More like.

heh.. it was 4yrs ago.. Im over it now 😃

or 3yrs ago... oh just checked... it was on my birthday too....

Happy birthday!

march 13th

oh.. I wonder how the media will respond to the news that just came out...

unemployment dropped below 4% in the US

first time in 18yrs 😃

i know this one

obama legacy

obviously.... the bad stuff was trump .. and the good stuff was obama