• lud@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    I liked smarter every day but recently I have been kinda put off because of his fairly frequent military propaganda for USA’s military.

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      11 days ago

      Been a while I didn’t watch one of his videos, but I remember some US military stuff on there and I thought it was an interesting view from someone I think is smart but clearly doesn’t share my political leanings.

      Trying to not be in an echo chamber and all.

      Important to note that I don’t live in the US.

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        10 days ago

        That’s fair.

        But it’s not mainly his views that put me of (just kinda) it’s the paid and unpaid sponsorships with the military. It’s so obviously a recruitment strategy that it’s painful to watch.

        I don’t live in the USA either.

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          10 days ago

          He lives in Huntsville, Alabama. 95% of his neighbors are defense contractors. It isn’t sponsorships, it’s “this guy lives 40 feet away from me and does something interesting for a living”

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            10 days ago

            The description in multiple of the videos advertises navy or airforce recruitment. And in the non paid videos, why do you think he was given access, time, and permission to post the videos? For recruitment obviously.

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              10 days ago

              Not exactly a new tactic. Same thing for Top Gun and probably a bunch of other movies. Part recruitment, part public relations to improve their image.

              But the military does have some neat tech that most people won’t ever see. Like his series in the submarine, there was a lot of really cool.

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                10 days ago

                Absolutely and that puts me off. Especially when they push out multiple ads across multiple youtubers at roughly the same time, like they did at one time with smartereveryday

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        10 days ago

        The end of ever video includes the name of a bible verse, Destin is not exactly hiding the fact that he’s christian lol