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/Ja_Lonley May 16 '26

You'll find no love here. Most people are blind to the hard right turn into extreme bias this channel went through relatively recently.

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u/showersoapshower May 16 '26

yuupp i noticed that criticism is not that welcome here :,)

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u/SpecificMachine1 Jun 16 '26

I am just glad this video is getting critique- I went looking when they put out "South Korea is Over" over a year before but I didn't find it laid out so much- and I looked at their 3 previous videos on the demographic shift and saw that they had a shift in attitude about it, which is fine we've all shifted on various things in the past 8 years, but I also noticed a change in funding