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Videos are inferior to written communication for providing details. They also consume far more bandwidth. The visuals may provide additional information - but this is rarely an advantage.But if you feel that videos are so good why don't you post the major points from the videos? It isn't unusual for quotes from written sources to be provided with links.

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The videos I've put up are from good sources it seems to me.

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Your record is against you on that point. Let us note that when I asked you could provide no reason to think that your sources were any good bringing it down to your own hopelessly poor judgement.

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What motive could anyone have for pretending things are worse than they are?

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It is hardly unusual for the Right to blame problems on immigrants - the far Right in particular. Or for them to indulge in dishonesty to do so. It's been pretty much a constant feature for as long as I've known it.And then we have people trying to stir up hate against Muslims. And people who want to keep refugees out.So there are pretty obvious motives - and we should expect the Right to indulge them.

That is just wrong. Flat out wrong.Statistics have to be statistically valid. Government statistics are not just random sets of numbers, they're objective and gathered in a scientific way such that their error rates are known and can verified by third parties.Youtube videos are no better than anecdotes produced by people with agendas.There is no equivalence at all. None. If you can't tell the difference, you're part of the damn problem. You're kidding? Trump got to be president of the USA by lying and making stuff up like the Swedish rapes and the non-existing UK no-go areas. How much more evidence do you need? It's propganda that appeals to the hard of thinking and the bigots that don't know the difference between a story and a fact.

How else do you think Trump got to be president? Analyze the people that voted for him. This article in The Atlantic is hardly fake journalism. I recommend reading it.
The Mind Of Donald Trump

The article, written back in June, has this about 40% of the way down predicting what Trump might be like as president:

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In sum, Donald Trump’s basic personality traits suggest a presidency that could be highly combustible. One possible yield is an energetic, activist president who has a less than cordial relationship with the truth. He could be a daring and ruthlessly aggressive decision maker who desperately desires to create the strongest, tallest, shiniest, and most awesome resultand who never thinks twice about the collateral damage he will leave behind. Tough. Bellicose. Threatening. Explosive.

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Bullseye.--Percy

The author of that article, Dan P. McAdams, was interviewed just last month in a followup article. 'He's Going to Continue to Create Chaos'Some quotes from the second article:

I have to admit that when I wrote the piece I did not think he would win the election. If I were writing it today, though, I would stick pretty much with what I wrote, but I would emphasize two things more than I did.

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The first is that I would double down even more on the idea that what you see is what you get when it comes to Trump. The piece starts off with this uneasy sense that Donald Trump is playing a role. I wanted to get behind the mask, but by the end I’m frustrated because there’s a lot less behind the mask than you expect.

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The second thing I would emphasize more is the theme of authoritarianism. I think what we have seen in the last six monthsand now that he is presidentis that Trump really doesn’t know how, or want, to work within the typical institutional structures of democracy. Like an authoritarian leader, he wants to transcend that and connect directly to the people. He does that through Twitter, by going around the press, or by making it sound as though the world is an extraordinarily dangerous place and positioning himself as a sort of authoritarian leader, savior and strong man who will deliver the country from carnage, to use a word he used in his inaugural address.

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The upcoming State Of The Union address on Tuesday will tell us a bit more of what we (don't) want to know about this populist leader who some equate with Andrew Jackson.

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Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain "
~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith
"as long as chance rules, God is an anachronism."~Arthur Koestler

We need to remember that Andrew Jackson directly disobeyed orders from Congress and the President when he was in the Military, invaded another country without authorization, executed foreign diplomats without due process and while President helped implement a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide.Not sure that is an admirable rsum .

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Germany hate crime: Nearly 10 attacks a day on migrants in 2016

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Arson attacks on shelters used by asylum seekers are common in Germany

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Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says.

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A total of 560 people were injured in the violence, including 43 children.

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Three-quarters of the attacks targeted migrants outside of their accommodation, while nearly 1,000 attacks were on housing.

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Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open up Germany to people fleeing conflict and persecution has polarised the country and boosted hate crime.

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Germany is struggling with a backlog of asylum applications and there are fears about security following a series of terrorist attacks across Europe.

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But the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany in 2016 was 280,000, a drop of more than 600,000 from the previous year, following the closure of the Balkan migrant route and an EU deal with Turkey.

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So it seems that immigrants are more in danger than a danger. Similar findings in Sweden, where immigrants are being attacked.Do your news sources report these incidents or do they hide them because of some conspiracy agenda?Just askin

May well be worse than I thought How YouTube Serves As The Content Engine Of The Internet’s Dark SideI think that it is quite reasonable to be a little suspicious of YouTube videos, if that is even close to true. A video coming from a responsible news agency might be worth more. But I still prefer text for it's ability to communicate relevant detail and for ease of reference.

I. and I suspect everyone else here, object to illegal immigration, or accepting huge numbers of Muslim refugees. Which does not preclude accepting a number of Muslim refugees or showing Christian compassion.You are addressing your made-up fantasy.

Anecdotes are not statistics.

Anecdotes are not statistics.

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Interesting. I didn't see any evidence or specifics. What wealthy families have had to give up their homes for refugees?I suspect it's not true.

Anecdotes are not statistics.Unsupported assertions of unlikely events aare not evidence.

It's a standard authoritairion technique. Trump uses it all the time. Convince the people that only he can save you from a terrible fate... just give up a few things such as our civil rights.

That's what he says.He's deporting lots of bad people and lots of good people indiscriminately. I have no problem with supporting those laws.But there is no evidence of any undermining. Reality is not affected by your opinions.Edited by JonF, : No reason given.