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(2021 Podcast Series)

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A lot of style, but very little substance.
Darwinskid8 May 2023
To give credit where it is due, Leigh McGowan (PoliticsGirl) is a pretty good actress. Her videos are not of particularly impressive quality from a production standpoint, but her commanding presentation of thought makes up for that. Perhaps somewhere in the multiverse she is an Academy-Award winning performer, but in this universe her professional acting aspirations did not lead to very many career opportunities, so making political commentary for the internet became her bread and butter.

Unfortunately, her arguments very often are not logically sound and commit one too many fallacies, as a result they come across as very biased, childish, unfair, and dismissive of other perspective. She relies too much on appeal to emotion than factual data, and it lessens credibility, the approach of giving every talking point the Meryl Streep treatment might work some of the time, but not if later data proves argument to be false. You just need to be more careful with presentation, politics isn't theater, or the cinema and it isn't sports, either.
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