if most of your money comes from billionaires and you admit to making propaganda videos for them, you’re owned by private equity. it doesn’t matter how much you or they argue about how that isn’t technically true because it’s not officially on paper.
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hikaru755@lemmy.world 5 months agoDo you have actual evidence for Kurzgesagt being among PE-owned channels, or are you just extrapolating? Because the video you linked doesn’t mention them, and a quick search didn’t turn up anything about that.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 months ago
hikaru755@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Like it or not, words have meaning, and black and white thinking is comfortable, but doesn’t help anyone. There is still a massive difference between the gates foundation having a 0.5% stake in Kurzgesagt and them being “owned” by PE, and pretending otherwise just means you’re not actually interested in any kind of productive discussion.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 months ago
When you sell your soul to the devil, it’s gone forever. And I never implied I was interested in “productive discussion”. I said what I said because I’ve seen what evidence there is and have made my own conclusions. I never said I was interested in debating.
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t see any evidence of that, as well.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Interesting way to say “making shit up”
hikaru755@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Didn’t want to be too combative from the start lol