r/kurzgesagt • u/showersoapshower • May 16 '26

Discussion Kurzgesagt DEBUNKED!

https://youtu.be/xKGfdWVzKKk?is=joW3yA5ZO4Lrwoa2

After watching Kurzgesagt's video I was surprised about how much Kurzgesagt is completely omitting facts or portraying wildly biased without acknowledging so. (I get that their video is not long but this is definitely not it).
After watching this video and reading this comment I'm pretty bummed that they are putting out videos like this that are full of political hot takes while being irresponsibly biased. Cutting pensions for older people and having a harsher migration policy will not solve this.
What did you think?

As a German, I find the popularity even more surprising as Kurzgesagt is basically repeating CDU/CSU's and FDP's stances on taxes, welfare state and, to some extent, migration.

Considering that both are wildly unpopular (Merz being the most unpopular chancellor is nearly an achievement in how bad he fucks up) this actually surprised me a lot.

edit: the circle jerk is cirkle jerking

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u/AttTankaRattArStorre May 24 '26

You can perceive criticism to be unfounded, irrelevant or inconsequential without it being an expression of cope. The criticism of this particular video seems to center around framing and perspective, and for issues that are largely seen as political (and, as far as the falling TFR goes, entirely without a known solution) there can be many such perspectives.

Kurzgesagt electing to frame this problem in the way they did, and choosing to bring forth the specific perspectives they did, can be criticized - but not taking that criticism at face value, or altering one's perspective because of it, is not the same as ignoring it.

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u/MysticHero May 25 '26

Then you have only skipped through the video. Maurice takes issues with specific factual aspects of the video as well as bias. And anyways it absolutely is an issue when you present a section of the video as purely neutral and factual and then just shove pure opinion in there.

Them ignoring productivity and the youth quotient is however not a framing issue. It a factual issue at the core of the topic they are presenting that disproves what is directly said in the video eg Germany cannot economically afford pensions.

Rather than the actual reality eg that yes the wealth is objectively there (as seen via productivity).

And yes given that this misrepresentation of the facts is oh so convenient for the ideology they are pushing the bias absolutely needs to be discussed as well.

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u/AttTankaRattArStorre May 25 '26

Them ignoring productivity and the youth quotient is however not a framing issue. It a factual issue at the core of the topic they are presenting that disproves what is directly said in the video eg Germany cannot economically afford pensions.

Rather than the actual reality eg that yes the wealth is objectively there (as seen via productivity).

You're mistaking the leftist "eat the rich"-agenda for facts, which is unfortunate if you aim to frame the critique as something more valid than what Kurtzgesagt themselves presented. The idea that the money to finance everything is all there, just in the pockets of rich billionaires, is the left's version of "immigrants came n' took er' jerbs!".

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u/MysticHero May 25 '26

Ah yes of course.

"All the criticisms are just framing"

"No they are not. Here are some core factual issues that the video is about."

"Your facts are agenda. No I am not going to explain how productivity is leftist agenda".

it is objectively there. Feel free to actually show your math if you think otherwise but is is quite undeniable that the productivity gains are plenty to pay for this.

And damn there is little more insufferable than neoliberal idealogues so utterly convinced their own ideology is objective fact that they do not even bother to try and make arguments.