A number of you have noted that Simon is "just a reader" of other people's content. I actually do note this near the end of the video, but let me just add an additional bit of commentary in response to this. Simon begins his videos by introducing himself and posting his twitter handle. He often uses terms like "we think" when making opinionated political statements. In my opinion, that invites personal accountability, even if the "Simon" I'm responding to is a kind of made-up character whose views may not resemble the privately held-opinions of the real world, off-camera Simon. A lot of entertainment, even educational entertainment, is obviously scripted. I'm sure Adam Conover doesn't personally research everything he says either. But if you choose to serve as the public face of an argument, it is inevitable that you will wind up being held personally accountable as the personification of that argument. Ultimately, critics have to respond to the opinion as it is publicly presented. I've worked in opinion journalism for a long time, and it's actually quite strange and unprecedented for someone to be engaged in creating opinion content but also have no oversight or involvement in the constructions of the opinions he or she expresses.
I don't understand why you interpret the Competitiveness data as something bad, 14 is actually great, of course you can't beat Signapore or Taiwan, but you are still ahead of many important countries like France, Australia, Norway, Luxembourg or Israel. Even if you look at the people in front of Canada on that list you can say they are among the worlds most developed economies in Western Europe and East Asia (+USA).
@@MickenCZProfi As I said, in the context of Canada, competitiveness is seen as a liability for this country. Obviously its all relative, but Canada is a country that has to compete with America, Britain and Germany in particular, and we are failing to do so.
1st of all,sorry for my english skills. Simon makes the english version of Visual Politik videos. Visual Politik is a liberal (acording to EU politics) libertarian (acording to US/Canada politics) RUclips Chanel from my home country, Spain. Almost every video about them ignores every information that they dislike and are full of stereotypes such as germans work better that people from southern europe. In a video about the 2020 election they said that latino vote is important because they are in California and Texas (ignoring the fact that California is always safe blue and Texas is a likely to safe red state). I like both JJ and Me.beat channels Greetings from Galicia,Spain
Iago Garcia I know that there are some Galician separatists, so would please clear that up for me? Do most people support independence, or is it a minority opinion, or is it about even like in Catalonia?
@Alex indeed. My Jewish ancestors immigrated to Quebec in the early 1900s and the French specifically required them to go to English schools, because they didn't want them in their own Catholic-run schools.
Happens too often. It does two things however, one is to degrade the average quality of videos available, but the other is to encourage more people to try and create. Many of the channels are very well researched, but it is obvious when they aren't. Also, can we just acknowledge the ability to make a whole channel using nothing but stock footage and video editing? How many channels are computer narrated? I've seen channels where it is clear the person who made it did not need a camera at all.
Yeah, same with most news articles. I live in Belgium and most of the things I see on the internet about my country should really be classified as truth product.
". . . the foundation of Canada was English, French, and the Aboriginal people who *coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness,* and those traditions *have carried on* into modern Canadian society." That statement _alone_ has destroyed all credibility that Simon Whistler may have had with me. The bare minimum of research would have left this premise dead on arrival.
I'm Canadian and I agree with him on this matter. In comparison to a lot of countries that had to deal with indigenous people and different nationalities from within, Canada got out of the mess pretty peacefully. We didn't have any civil war, the foundation of the confederation wasn't undertaken through war but a meer political process (considering the mutual prejudices between French and English Canadians). As to the indigenous people, it wasn't perfect but we didn't have any Wounded Knee. There wasn't a genocide, there wasn't an organized process to exterminate them, nor did it happen. The government only wanted to assimilate them properly to society and failed. There's no easy way to get different people to live together, but when you deign to look at other countries, you realise Canada has done it pretty well.
There are two types of people: 1. "Canada is a glorious, heavenly utopia who can do no wrong." 2. "Canadians live in igloos and ride moose in their military."
3. Canada is no different than any other cheating Democrat ran Oceania, that’s been boughten up by China, and is under the rule of pathetic big brother, while it’s regressed back to 1984, now Fuck 0ff, report my comment, before not me tube, but you tube does.
BadEmpanada was far more vicious. He’s a Chilean living in Australia who was critiquing a British channel that was a translation of a right wing Spanish channel’s videos about the Bolivian elections.
@Jacob Hicks I agree to a point, but there is also a huge number of Canadians who do think this place is always the best, always the purest, always the most noble, the way things are done here is the smartest...blah blah blah. Why can't people just see the good and the bad and go from there?
Yeah. Im a New Zealander who is quite involved in Australia. I feel you. Both of these countries get made out to be fairy lands but there are very real problems. Too many liberal Americans have tried to explain to me how nz is perfect before
It seems especially weird with Norway. I knew someone who claimed they were from Norway and they mentioned that life in Norway is boring _because_ it's so perfect and stuff...like, even if that were true, how? Wouldn't familial, work, personal, and other kind of non-governmental struggles come up in your life? I'm an American whose lfe si (relatively) comfy from a fianciall standpoint but like...I still have strugglles that keep it from 'boring'.
@@Adahop not saying I'm not privileged and lucky to be born in Norway, i fucking love it here. Just saying sometimes people make it out to be some incredible fairytale land. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things tho✌️
As an American who has watched a pretty good amount of Simon’s videos, there’s been plenty of times when he’s talked about the US that made me want to say “wait hold up that’s just not true”
No wonder why I can't ever watch more than a couple of his videos without my brain hurting a little. I can't put my finger on it, but he talks like when someone wants to sound smarter than they actually are. Not saying Simon is retarded, but either him or his writing team needs to improve their writing skills.
I’m an American watch his videos pretty recreationally, usually for background noise while cooking and occasionally picking up fun facts. I’ve never noticed his comments on the US. Do you mind saying the statements or the videos if you remember them? Really curious as to what he said about the US ha ha.
Ah yes, the British, French and Native Americans living in politeness during the Seven Years War, the Red River Rebellion, the Conscription Crises, the Indian Act and the 60s crisis
Crown Prince of Manitoba ah yes, and we were being especially polite when we killed off like, 90% of our bison population to hurt our First Nations. And weren’t the correction (I honestly forgot what they were called, I hope that’s right..) schools nice!
He's probably closer to Matthew Santoro than VSauce, honestly. The latter puts far more consistent effort into his content, whereas the former runs a similarly "quantity over quality" sort of thing.
This is why I quit watching Simon's stuff. He's stretched himself so thin, that you can't really trust his videos to be accurate. There's simply not enough hours in the day to do the level of research needed for those topics to ensure accuracy. His biases also tend to bleed through in a way that can be off putting. History and facts should be as objective as possible.
The channels usually have 1 or 2 writers and Simon is just a narrator (blind reading, so he usually has no idea about the vid beforehand other than its topic), so I'm not sure if the amount of content has that much influence on the quality. If you've watched some Business Blaze / Brain Blaze stuff, you'll know that he actually tries to keep the amount of opinions leaking into it pretty low on the more serious channels, but yes, it still shows. Basically, Simons videos are more entertainment than education. Basically edutainment which should not be used as a sole source of information.
I really like Simon but yeah. I mostly think of Simon stuff as a way to introduce you to something new and possibly interesting. When you go learn more you'll realize that Simon didn't give you a very in-depth or even accurate overview, but in the mean time he's got 35 more videos you can search for an interesting thing to go learn about.
The best example of that has to be his biography on Karl Marx… He states his opinion on the guy implicitly during the video and explicitly in the comments. Oh, and also, includes a long ad for an expensive watch in the middle of the video 🙃
I bursted out laughing when he said, ” The foundation of Canada was French, English, and the Aboriginal People who coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness.” ...like pick up a Canadian history book... My god🤦🏼♀️
In relative terms it isn't untrue. Generally such influxes result in out and out war. Or genocide. Canada has been a peaceful place for the vast majority of its existance.
The FACTS are this. ALL of what we now know of Anglo-Canada was first settled by Americans. The institutions were British but the culture was American. The British wave of immigration came later.
@@paulburley7993 Yes, basically true, although "American" doesn't simply mean "US citizen" as such: A good number of British Loyalists, "American" before 1776, and "US Citizen" after 1776 but still decidedly British, first populated Anglo-Canada. It must also be pointed out that American revolutionary forces forcibly tried to take British held Canadian lands and failed. AFTER that came a wave of US Americans.
@@alexwestconsulting Sorry but your statements make no sense to me. It doesn't matter that those Americans were "British loyalists" or Americans or U S. citizens or not. By 1776 there was a distinctly American people - the difference was a matter of politics only. It was this culture that first settled Canada and waves of British immigration failed to erase the fact that we are culturally closer to the United States. British held Canadian lands in 1776???? That in itself is an absurd notion. It is more accurate to state that the mother countries of Canada were France and the United States. The British part came later. It is culture that makes a country not politics. So although the institutions of the area we now call Canada were British the population and culture was decidedly American. You can split hairs from now to never but you can't rewrite historical fact. I am an extremely proud Canadian and like virtually all Canadians absolutely don't want to be American. I just hate historical revisionism that Canada since day one has been a party to. I guess it all fits in with our "love-hate" relationship with our American neighbours.
Agreed. There are improvements we can do everywhere and in every nation. Ignoring such things only makes you ignorant of your nation's flaws which is idiotic if you feel like a patriot or nationalist of ot
Agreed. Nontheless, in regard to J.J., he blatantly criticizes Canada a lot and praises the US hugely. I'm convinced he would prefer to be American than Canadian.
@@mfvieira89 The reason he criticizes Canada more is because he lives there and and as a Citizen he has a deeper understanding of Canada's issues. Resuming: His channel is focused on Canadian politics and culture. So of course he criticizes more Canada than any other country but he also he talks more about it than any othet nation. Also he's praised a lot of countries on his videos which doesn't mean he'd prefer to live in those places
@@HamishDuh2nd So he's never said: " id rather be American" He said most canadians would probably vote to join America because anti americanism in his words "one inch deep" That doesn't mean he's part of the majority that would vote to join America, that's just his critical thinking.
That is kind of a trick question because curlers have to work other jobs to earn a living. I worked with a person who was the provincial mixed curling champion of my province and was almost the Canadian champion one year. I also went to school with the junior curling champion of our province. Also I don't know if you are a hockey fan or not but Bob Cole was a champion curler for years from our province.
As a Canadian most Americans I talked to can't stand their leader also. So I guess we have that in common. But at least out hated leaders to defend our single payer health care system we just wish they would improve it.
@@humansvd3269 Yes people who can't wait their turn for a non life threatening procedure do go to the US and pay for it. By the way that means a US citizen then as their procedure delayed so thank you for that. I can never understand for a sake of a month they would pay for something that would be free here. I guess they have no scruples and are usually our version of Republicans.
ah yes I love being canadian. time to run down to the dep and guzzle milk and maple syrup straight from the bag and can, then get slammed on molson and play curling
@@patiencedvrx Bagged milk used to be common in the west as well, but they slowly disappeared. Actually, you can still get bagged milk in the west if you order milk directly from the dairy company. I was watching a Dairyland delivery truck and they were unloading milk crates of bagged milk to a day care. This was just a few years ago!
"The foundation of Canada was English, French, and the aboriginal people, who coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness." More like fought each other over dead beavers.
Simon once made a video about the Australian economy and half the “facts” in his video were false and dramatised. Have to take what he says with a grain of salt.
Totally agree. When i first saw his videos, they were slick and the host is an excellent narrator, but something about the videos bugged me to no end. It is nice to have some clarification now about why Simon’s videos annoyed me.
Simon Whistler is like a student who wrote an essay using only the first source they found when Googling basic information, without bothering to try and dig deeper if it got their essay finished.
@Ornate Orator His quite large collection of videos which go from "subtly" to "blatantly" anti-Russian show it too. Just a YT presence pushing the overall "mainstream media" narrative, was the feeling I was left with after watching a few of his vids. AFTER "WTF?"-ing and wondering just how many fuckin' YT channels he was a speaker on!
"Look up to" is a bit of a weird phrase to apply to a country, but Canada is generally well respected around the world. That said, some of that respect (maybe a lot of it) comes down to our relationship to the US. In some ways we kind of get to play the "mean girl" who hangs out with the "ugly girl" to look better by comparison. The more the world hates the US, the better Canada appears. And at this point in history, thank's almost entirely to the current president, the US is about the most hated its been in decades by citizens of other nations.. maybe even ever.
@@altrag While the opinion of the US differs, that doesn't really mean Canada is any better. The US has a lot more immigration than Canada, so they are still an admired country. The US is still the #1 Military, #1 Economy, and the #1 Power in the world. Canada.... trys. But they try too hard to be so anti-american. They are cool and all but being so like America, Anti-American, partially separatist, and not too powerful, the UN just seemed kinda iffy on letting Canada into the SC. Canada just isn't as desired as many say it to be. One day, I'm sure Canada will have a chance. But for now, they have Tim Horton's.
@@random8226 Yeah, that's kind of what I'm getting at. Canada's dark side gets kind of overlooked because of our proximity to the US and their widely-known dark history. Though I disagree about the US being a necessarily "admired" country. You can respect a bully's fist without liking or respecting the person swinging it. That's where the US is at right now -- we all want the economic benefits of being their "friend" but at the same time, we know they're unpredictable and kind of a dick and might turn on us at any moment.
@@altrag While I highly doubt that the us would ever turn on Canada, you are right the leadership currently is.... questionable. But Trudeau isn't an angle either. You are 100% right about the world overlook Canada's dark side. What I meant by "look up to" for the US is that if countries want it or not the US will be the big boi and there ain't nothing to stop it. The current political leadership is all over the board currently, and I'm sure it will settle down one day, but you are right.
Simon Whistler disproves two commonly held stereotypes. First, anyone who wears glasses is smart. Second, anyone who speaks with a British accent is smart. 🤓
@Ked Taczynski Idk, maybe you've been to way more places in this incredibly vast country than I have, but even though I live in sounthern Ontario and have been to Vancouver, I'm from Montreal, have been to Halifax, have friends from Newfounland, Calgary, Winnipeg and Saskatoon, and I've never heard anyone pronounce "about" that way
@Ked Taczynski No. I used to be a character actor and HAVE innately paid attention to accents and how people speak my whole life. But I don't think you have to be an "expert" on any level, which I'm not, to recognize this one is not typically Canadian at alll
Is it just me or does J.J back up everything he says and my gawd is that refreshing. I absolutely love this channel and I’ve watched it non stop for two days lol! I love how he explains everything from so many points of view or if he can’t he makes a clear effort to be as fair as he is able. J.J. Awesome work. Thank you so much for the content!
I just found this channel yesterday and I'm so refreshed. I'm still not positive on where he stands on most political issues and this is HOW IT SHOULD BE. It sounds like an oxymoron, but political education should not be political
After he made a enormous mistake while talking about my country I simply never watched a video again. He said that Croatia used the cyrillic alphabet before joining the EU and then had to adapt and use the latin alphabet.
@@lukel236 Luka Loieta Ha ha ha ha.... Well, I could even understand that he (or his Spanish team) Google about some country for one hour and than make a video and that they don't care is it true or not, but this theory about cyrillic used in Croatia before joining EU is not even stereotype, not even fake news produced by mainstream media, it is something I never her of anywhere. I have no idea where he could get such fasle information. In understand political bias and misinterpretation, but this is something that is not even that. It's like saying Berlin is the capitol of Austria, no connection to reality. Not pro left or pro right bias, it is simple something connected to facts which can be checked very easy, It is one thing if some youtuber ""informs" the public that Trump is literally Hi#ler, because according to his interpretation that is the fact, but this kindergarden. Even bigger mistake than calling Trudeau the president of Canada, or Trump the prime minister of the USA.
@@damirilic1989 ruclips.net/video/eCe2fTCBpkc/видео.html This is the video I was talking about. Try to find all of the mistakes, it is a fun activity for quarantine hahahahaha
@@dhatrishdixit6004 👋 Maybe because most folk don't know what Aspect Dank is "speaking" on? 🤔 Care to decipher for those who ain't clocking?🤗 👁️ They, They Are The EggMen 👁️
I’ve always seen Simon Whistler as the kind of educational RUclips or that you watch when you are half asleep and don’t feel like thinking lol. All the veneer and validation of being educated without any of the effort
@@aloneiplay26 Exactly what I came here to say. It completely strips his credibility when you see just how little he actually knows and how willing he is to read whatever is put in front of him. And they sure do get him to read some rubbish on Business Blaze!
@@cnn8420 If the government runs it then it's not a business. You make no sense. And inefficient? Actually, capitalism is very inefficient. There's a ton of waste under capitalism, the products don't go to the people that need them. And you also got things like planned obsolescence, which is companies intentionally making their products inferior to make you buy more, which creates even more waste. Efficiency doesn't matter under capitalism, only profit matters.
I'll never forgive VisualPolitik for implying that we chileans were almost crybabies who didn't appreciate what we had and that's why we protested in 2019. Also, according to their view the solution for our struggle is to liberalize our economy even further, as if there was even a way to do so in a country were water is privatized.
Do keep in mind that Simon Whistler is more of a host that narrates articles for several different companies. His opinions may or may not be displayed accurately through said videos or articles
@Pie Fish most of his channels have a website attached. One of them is literally called toptenz.net. he doesn't even live in Britain, he lives in Prague
@WarmPotato I don't know about the other channels he works in, but when it comes to VisualPolitik (the channel where almost all of the examples highlighted in this video come from), he has literally zero creative control over it. Those videos are just the English version of a Spanish channel, down to the format, the pacing and the editing style. Enrique Fonseca, the actual creator of the channel, has stated that he and his team have a very well defined work process that his entire team must follow so he doesn't need to micromanage everything. The only things that Simon add to those are basically his voice, his persona and likely some input in the translation process to make the script flow better in English. That's it.
Also angry Scottish screaming I guess, but clearly the Celtic peoples in Canada basically assimilated into English culture. Notice Mr. McCullough here is not wearing a kilt or talking in Gaelic or Scots.
@@Gamenetreviews Scottish did as they were protestants but many Irish were assimilated by the Catholic French-Canadian. Irish last names are everywhere in Quebec.
Some people feel tempted to make Canada into a never-never land because no one knows enough about the place to challenge them on the details. Thanks, JJ, for challenging. As for Simon, he comes up with some interesting stuff, but he moves through it so quickly that you gotta think that you're being taken. His real goal seems to be how many words he can cram into each video without pausing to breathe or take a drink of water...
The political videos “made” by Simon aren’t made by him it’s made by the same channel in Spain Geopolitics is simply the English version of the Spanish channel, Simon simply narrates the original video to English So all incorrect info is from the Spanish narrator of the original channel and the lack of accurate info in Spanish Just thought I would let anybody know
@@MJ-cc4uf that's precisely why I didn't say anything about VP specifically in my original comment, and when I did comment on them, it was with the qualifier "...from what I've heard"
I used to watch a lot of Simon's videos, just kind of got bored of them, but I did notice then that when he would talk about a subject that I actually have a decent amount of knowledge in (such as certain facts about music or musicians) that I would catch some inaccuracies
I read a sarcastic comment about Canada years ago: 'Canada could have had French culture, English government, and American know how but has French government, English know how, and American culture' - crack that manages to slam 4 countries at one time.
Yep. Just to be clear, if it’s not Business Blaze. It’s probably not my opinion. And I know, I know... so why present it then? Well that’s how I make a living.
I would say the Tragically Hip qualify as worshipped in Ontario, but like the milk bags that's probably another example of people thinking Ontario and English Canada are the same thing.
Yea people assume that Canada has all these things that only Ontario seems to have, at least in the quantity portrayed when each Canadian province is different.
Even within Ontario people assume Ottawa and a narrow slice of Toronto are the whole province. It surprises a lot of people in Ottawa when I tell them that most people in Ontario aren't bilingual and wouldn't qualify for a government position if they applied.
@@Jackoosh1 I've only been out in the sticks in Ontario, in Minaki. When you could actually drink water straight from the Winnipeg River. I like Canada quite a bit. Hell, I even liked Montreal. I'd live in Canada, but they won't have me.
@@raiyne8089 well we met different Albertans cause I don't know very many Albertans that support immigration. (I don't personally care as long as it doesn't interfere with peoples lives)
Mostly because Alberta wants to sell as much petroleum as possible, but because it doesn’t have a coastline, it has to rely on the willingness of other, Liberal provinces in the east and west who are less enthusiastic about more oil pipelines in their lands.
I specifically voted against Justin Trudeau in his first election because of the statement he made: "The budget will balance itself." It showed a complete lack of knowledge about finance, and frankly, scared me.
It's not a stupid statement. What he means is that more social spending will stimulate the economy and lead to more revenue in taxes. Whether it happened or not is a different story.
British Babish is the definition of a pseudo intellectual. He talks in run-on sentences and leaves nothing as an open discussion for his viewers. I, too, am Canadian and found his clickbait 'I heart Canada' to be cringe.
And thats a subject you know about. Imagine how many other videos are just like this, but because you don't have any expertise in that field, you just can't recognize it.
@@strongarthanyew8650 The Hip is super overrated, like they're a good band with some good songs but they're not the national treasure they're made out to be.
Ask Canadian too I'm triggered by Canadian stereotypes it just makes me mad most things are fake about Canadians I know no nice Canadians and only around like Ontario Quebec area how big milk and stuff and the accents they think all Canadians have are in the east side of Canada so yeah not every Canadian has a accent in fact most of us are much like Americans
If he made a video about America using stereotypes as he did with Canada it would be like: After deporting 3 million mexicans and starting another war in the middle east the American walks down to mcdonalds to buy a quarter pounder with cheese.
ArmchairWarrior Lmfao all Canadians think Americans are fatasses but they really not instead it’s becoming a home for those annoying ass metropolitan vegan. When you visit I guarantee you won’t see a bunch of walruses and elephants.
SLAMO Well I can’t speak for Denver or the Midwest cause I never lived there but I feel like those odds are a little exaggerated. I can speak for New York and Massachusetts and Connecticut and New Jersey. Which is like almost like 50 million population total more than Canada’s entire population. East coast which most people decide to live in isn’t crowded with obesity.
"You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know." - Michael Crichton
Waldzkrieger this is exactly why I didn’t watch any Visual Politik videos after I saw his “analysis” on the Latino vote in the US. Complete trash, so I’m sure the rest is too. Just keep scrolling the RUclips feed.
@@JJMcCullough It said that Latino vote was going to be vital in the next elections because Latinos are growing and mainly live in the most important states for elections: Texas and California. Which would be true if they were swing states, but Oh no! They aren't! Yeah. A lot of bs.
Did this man really say that the English, French, and Native Canadians coexisted peacefully through politeness and tolerance? Tell that to the 215 Native children found buried at the school. Wow!
They cant accurately detect 215 Native children with GPR. That simply is not possible until they exhume the grave which they did detect. Look at what GPR data looks like, then watch the Kamloops conference with the Sarah Beaulieu who ran the GPR test. Also, he is generally wrong but the French settlers and indigenous people did indeed have a good relationship in comparison to the British settlers during the fur-trade era. Many of them even engaged in interracial relationships. The church is, and always will be, the problem. Ask the dead Irish kids, they faced the same fate.
I remember Simon making two videos about Poland. One was praising them for their economic prosperity and relentlessness & history. The second one was baselessly just shitting on their politics for 10 minutes. Don't know what kind of sources he was reading on that one. That video has one his highest dislike to like ratios.
James Brock Those videos are from some Spanish guys who make visualpolitk. Simon just translates. Yes, I saw those videos, and you're right. What happens is that they are "almost libertarian", just as they defend Polish anti-communism (in the video on the economy) they also hate Poland for being proud of their land and not wanting open borders with countries with an archaic and decadent culture.
Well, the second video you mentioned is indeed a simplified version of what was going in Poland in terms of democracy and supposed shift towards authoritarian rule. But I wouldn’t say it’s completely baseless. In fact, Polish society is witnessing a change, the ruling party has exploited some very tangible issues people had during the rule of the previous government and addressed them with populist fashion. Actually, the Law and Justice government set up a bunch of lavish spending programs, and thanks to it, they are deemed as very many “average Poles” as the only party that kept their promises. It’s giving them a huge boost in polls and also on the elections day. Some people argue that law and justice went straight to just “buy” votes because - and it’s not a coincidence - some large sums were spent on pensions for senior citizens a couple of weeks before the elections. They even repeated this trick now., during the run-in to the presidential elections slated for May 10th. Btw the ruling party is unyielding amidst the calls to postpone the elections due to ongoing pandemic. And they have recently passed a bill which changes the way the elections will take place (it’s going to be now a mailing vote), even despite the rules that state that such changes should not be made that quickly. Anyway, it shows that Law and Justice party disregards the constitution and obviously the EU which tries to deter the Polish government from doing so. I really think that Poland drifts toward some soft of authoritarian rule because the system of checks and balances introduced in the constitution has been irreversibly harmed by this party and lost its meaning. I want to say as well why this particular video got too many dislikes. It’s because Poles have a remarkable trait of some sort of “national unity” which turns on rather subconsciously when they detect the criticism of their country. They believe that the image of Poland should be pure at least to foreigners. It’s, of course, a stretch because not every Pole feels like that but people I met and talked with kinda proved I wasn’t wrong.
According to Simon: *When a Canadian breathes* “Eh buddy sorry there eh come over now for some syrupy curling eh? Buddy come on now do forgive me mon chéri”
@@DaveMiller6042 The word aboriginal means the same as "native". Different (post-)colonial nations refer to their respective native populations in different words. In Australia, the common word is Aborigine, which is why the word is sometimes understood to mean the Native Peoples of Australia. But it can also mean essentially any person that is "native".
@@TheBrianFlanagan a chinook is a weather pattern of warm air in cold weather caused by the doming of clouds over the rockies. There are a few places in the US which border the mountains and could potentially get a chinook but it's mostly a Southern Alberta thing.
As a Native Canadian, It's impossible to find a job... I've applied to every possible job position being hundreds of positions that I'm able to do and guess what, false promises of hiring natives first and being shoved aside. Maybe I should sue all these major companies I've applied for that promise to hire native people.
Simon Whistler is literally the only person on youtube that if he pops up on my screen I have to close it immediately. I'm not sure what it is about him.
I watch some of his stuff, but with a grain/ block of salt. I grew up in some smug Left California, so I learned early where to discount pleading/exhortational discourse. He comes across as a Leftwing capitalist. Oxymorons are.
I enjoy his biography channel, but, while seemingly objective, they do leave some things out. His video on Kaiser Wilhelm failed to mention his political success with the Ottoman empire.
Simon's videos always have factual errors whenever I watch videos on subjects I'm personally familiar with which leads me to believe that those errors are also present on subjects that I'm not familiar with.
That is the only logical conclusion. I can't know what is wrong with everything because I don't know everything. But if you are very wrong about what I know, I can no longer trust you to tell me the truth about what I do not.
I love how easy J.J. takes every argument of Simon apart. It would be great to see some more J.J. destruction of other youtubers who talk stuff about things they didn`t actually understand.
As a New Zealander I feel like we have a similar problem a lot of American and Europeans like to make it out that our country is perfect when in reality there is plenty of conflict
"When it's actually a pretty fringe sport that most Canadians know nothing about" my Canadian highschool offered a Curling class that I took for two years and IT WAS AMAZING!
@@mayaw.4013 he’s being dismissive because the OP either a) completely missed the point of what she was trying to prove as false, or b) is agreeing with JJ about Canadians not knowing about curling; unknowingly proving JJ right.
When SW pronounced "Siouxsie and the Banshees" as, "Soo-ksie and the Banshees", I had to ask does he actually know anything, or is he just an autoprompt reader?
I encounter this A LOT on YT - people who’ve apparently never heard the words they’re using ever spoken aloud. Thank goodness Siouxsiesioux didn’t spell banshees in the original Gaelic…
..and it just came up on my newsfeed, someone in wildlife services studying coyotes in Alberta pronounce them "KAIyotes" (not kaiYOtees"), when talking about the sightings in Stanley Park..
Some people think that it's just an American liberal thing to have this rose tinted view of Canada/its politics, but as someone from the UK I can confirm it's also a thing among British left wingers too. Kind of reminds me of Bill Burr's little bit on Conan about how Canada isn't some 'post racial paradise', lol. (For the record I have friends from Canada and from my visit there it seems like a nice place, but it has its problems like any other industrialised first world country).
@Charles Gnarley Whoa, that was deep and very accurate. Particularly the part when progressives cheat and call themselves "on the right side of history"
@Charles Gnarley Hitler was a leftist. He believed in government control of almost everything. Mussolini was a leftist. Socialism is a leftist ideology.
Well, this comment section has moved into a very dangerous area. For one, I am surprised that people deem conservative politicians as "too submissive" to progressives, despite the clear numerous examples of the clear opposite. Were the conservatives submissive for the past year when they tried reopening the country basically every month? Were they submissive when Trump got the US out of multiple international organizations for dirt poor reasons? Were they submissive when everyone was citing mail ballots as the downfall of democracy, and went from a trial to another despite repeated failure to even provide evidence? If those are exanples of conservatives being too submissive, I don't want to imagine what you invision as "authentic/unrestricted conservatism". Additionally, I haven't heard the phrase "on the right side of history that often apart from matters of basic human rights for minorities or climate change. While I can admit that progressives definitely do not hold a monopoly over objective truth, it is hard to argue that you are not on the wrong side of history when a big part of your movement denies basic science showing the degradation of the environment for the past decades. The same "submissive" movement, that despite the advice of the vast majority of scientists, still cut lots of regulations meant to protect the environment. Also, claiming that Hitler and Mussolini are left wing is like claiming that Stalin is right wing because he enforced fervent nationalism, Russian superiority complex, and removal of the rights of minorities. I'd like to see the leftist agenda behind the Holocaust, or the New Roman Empire of Mussolini.
I respect his candid personal views and l really appreciate the fact that in his videos he is not out there bashing Americans like so many others. I agree with some of his points and disagree with others. But at least he is willing to admit that , as with all countries, his country has it's own imperfections.
This is what I feel a lot of people are missing. Yea him and his team mess up, but they’re fully able to admit that they say some stupid shit sometimes. I don’t watch toptenz or TIFO much and those are his more serious channels but on casual criminalist or brain blaze it’s refreshing to see a RUclipsr be so candid and not have an on-screen and off-screen persona… it’s just him reading a script, and his script writers nowadays are top notch, idk who wrote the Canadian ones but Danny, David, and Ilsa are the cream of the crop
Simon whistler started talking about South Korea but he omitted the most important fact... Park Chung-Hee and his military coup d'etat is what built modern day South Korea.
Most westerners just don’t know that South Korea and Taiwan used to be very repressive military dictatorships in which all leftists (and suspected leftists) were exterminated.
@@thomasprat7760 Gotta do what you gotta do to survive. The thing is that they reformed as opposed to China and North Korea which are still horrible opressive dictatorships.
“He” *(Actually VisualPolitik isn’t written by him, is a spanish speaking team from Latin America)* isn’t “progressive”, they are Neoliberals. A great deal of difference.
Not really. They both support mass immigration, multiculturalism, social liberalism, the erosion of native tradition, sovereignty and identity. So their overall agenda is basically the same, no matter how opposed their ideologies may theoretically be.
Right, in one of their Spanish language videos I recall them trying to link the Shining Path in Peru to Cuba based solely on an accusation by some politician made at a time when very little was even known about the Shining Path and at a time when it was fashionable to link all movements to Cuba to get US support. If you know anything about communist movements in Latin America you know this is a complete joke. They are completely uninformed spreading nonsense. JJ got it right, quantity over quality and you are right too, these are libertarians not "progressives".
I'd like to add this his videos even on Britain, his native country, are generally very inaccurate. His videos generally remind me of a first year university student's essay, that is to say difficult to sit through, and not very accurate.
Simon Whistler doesn't write the script. The script for VisualPolik come from the original channel also called VisualPolik that's a Spanish-language channel from a guy in Spain.
A number of you have noted that Simon is "just a reader" of other people's content. I actually do note this near the end of the video, but let me just add an additional bit of commentary in response to this.
Simon begins his videos by introducing himself and posting his twitter handle. He often uses terms like "we think" when making opinionated political statements. In my opinion, that invites personal accountability, even if the "Simon" I'm responding to is a kind of made-up character whose views may not resemble the privately held-opinions of the real world, off-camera Simon.
A lot of entertainment, even educational entertainment, is obviously scripted. I'm sure Adam Conover doesn't personally research everything he says either. But if you choose to serve as the public face of an argument, it is inevitable that you will wind up being held personally accountable as the personification of that argument. Ultimately, critics have to respond to the opinion as it is publicly presented.
I've worked in opinion journalism for a long time, and it's actually quite strange and unprecedented for someone to be engaged in creating opinion content but also have no oversight or involvement in the constructions of the opinions he or she expresses.
I feel like this kind of stuff will damage his reputation if he tries to break out and do his own stuff.
@@Waldzkrieger that's a fair statement, but if his career choice is just narrator, it's just the hustle
I don't understand why you interpret the Competitiveness data as something bad, 14 is actually great, of course you can't beat Signapore or Taiwan, but you are still ahead of many important countries like France, Australia, Norway, Luxembourg or Israel. Even if you look at the people in front of Canada on that list you can say they are among the worlds most developed economies in Western Europe and East Asia (+USA).
@@MickenCZProfi As I said, in the context of Canada, competitiveness is seen as a liability for this country. Obviously its all relative, but Canada is a country that has to compete with America, Britain and Germany in particular, and we are failing to do so.
I hate how he trys it look impartial but is actually biased 😂😂😂very biased 😂😂😂I apologise as a brit myself
FINALLY! JJ DRAWS BLOOD! WE'RE NOW A DRAMA CHANNEL!
When are *you* going to start drama, Jreg?
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Saying curling is popular in Canada is like saying bullfighting is popular in Spain. Stereotypes are lazy.
1st of all,sorry for my english skills.
Simon makes the english version of Visual Politik videos. Visual Politik is a liberal (acording to EU politics) libertarian (acording to US/Canada politics) RUclips Chanel from my home country, Spain.
Almost every video about them ignores every information that they dislike and are full of stereotypes such as germans work better that people from southern europe.
In a video about the 2020 election they said that latino vote is important because they are in California and Texas (ignoring the fact that California is always safe blue and Texas is a likely to safe red state).
I like both JJ and Me.beat channels
Greetings from Galicia,Spain
Mr. Beat ok
King.
Iago Garcia I know that there are some Galician separatists, so would please clear that up for me? Do most people support independence, or is it a minority opinion, or is it about even like in Catalonia?
How the heck are you not verified yet?
"The foundation of Canada was English, French, and the aboriginal people, who coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness."
HA
Wars? What wars? No wars here!
There is no war in Ba Sing Se. :D
Genuinely what. I’m so confused by the sheer ignorance of that statement...
@@PickleSurpriseVEVO you cant, you just cant
@Alex indeed. My Jewish ancestors immigrated to Quebec in the early 1900s and the French specifically required them to go to English schools, because they didn't want them in their own Catholic-run schools.
“The French, natives, English coexisted with eachother politely”
Whatever drugs your on, I want some buddy.
yea idk how he thought that
That is the complete opposite of what happened 😂
I'm not your buddy, friend
@@ingi1095 I’m not your friend, pal.
@@frogmouth2 I'm not your pal, guy
“British, French, And Natives lived together in politeness” That’s just so wrong
Yeah. It's unbelievable.
That’s far from the truth
HAHAHA
genocide is polite if you say "thank you" and give natives maple syrup in cans
I genuinely started cackling
All these 'infographics' youtubers all sound very reliable and well-researched, until they start talking about something you know more about...
Yep, lmao
That effect is called Gellman amnesia, it's everywhere
That's what happened to me when the infographics show released their SCP video
Happens too often. It does two things however, one is to degrade the average quality of videos available, but the other is to encourage more people to try and create. Many of the channels are very well researched, but it is obvious when they aren't.
Also, can we just acknowledge the ability to make a whole channel using nothing but stock footage and video editing? How many channels are computer narrated? I've seen channels where it is clear the person who made it did not need a camera at all.
Yeah, same with most news articles. I live in Belgium and most of the things I see on the internet about my country should really be classified as truth product.
". . . the foundation of Canada was English, French, and the Aboriginal people who *coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness,* and those traditions *have carried on* into modern Canadian society."
That statement _alone_ has destroyed all credibility that Simon Whistler may have had with me. The bare minimum of research would have left this premise dead on arrival.
Even if he’s just reading lines, should’ve refused to say that line of BS or walked out of the studio
Québec agrees with your statement.
The genocided Indigenous populations agree with your statement.
I'm Canadian and I agree with him on this matter. In comparison to a lot of countries that had to deal with indigenous people and different nationalities from within, Canada got out of the mess pretty peacefully. We didn't have any civil war, the foundation of the confederation wasn't undertaken through war but a meer political process (considering the mutual prejudices between French and English Canadians). As to the indigenous people, it wasn't perfect but we didn't have any Wounded Knee. There wasn't a genocide, there wasn't an organized process to exterminate them, nor did it happen. The government only wanted to assimilate them properly to society and failed.
There's no easy way to get different people to live together, but when you deign to look at other countries, you realise Canada has done it pretty well.
@@williampitt1537 "There was no genocide." Out of curiosity, what is you level of education and profession?
There are two types of people:
1. "Canada is a glorious, heavenly utopia who can do no wrong."
2. "Canadians live in igloos and ride moose in their military."
3. Canada is no different than any other cheating Democrat ran Oceania, that’s been boughten up by China, and is under the rule of pathetic big brother, while it’s regressed back to 1984, now Fuck 0ff, report my comment, before not me tube, but you tube does.
there is another: canada is going to be like australia and loose a war to birds (geese)
@@marcus4046 being a frequen park goer here in canada. All i have to say is that we better strap up. Because these geese are ruthless
No geese war (yet), but one of the provinces did go to war against rats (and won).
....I wanna ride a moose lol
Sitting in Australia, watching a Canadian critique an Englishmen. Gotta love the internet.
An American reading a Australians comment about a canadian critique a Englishmen
A South African reading an Americans reply about reading an Australians comment about watching a Canadian Critique an Englishman.
Who said CANZUK wasn’t viable?
A Canadian reading a South African reading an Americans reply about reading an Australians comment about watching a Canadian Critique an Englishman.
BadEmpanada was far more vicious. He’s a Chilean living in Australia who was critiquing a British channel that was a translation of a right wing Spanish channel’s videos about the Bolivian elections.
*Things about Canada the rest of the world finds weird*
He's gonna mention the milk bags isn't h-
*wHy Do CaNaDiAnS dRiNk MiLk in BaGs*
Vietnamese people drink milk in bags too.
Indonesians did drink milk from a bag too, until recently somebody decided to pack them in tiny plastic cups.
There are a lot of countries who do milk in bags, and water in bags even.
the real question is why *don't* americans drink milk in bags
Drinking milk out of bags is amazing.
- A delusional Ontarian
Non-Canadian: Praises Canada
Canadian: Disses Canada
Seems legit.
That's how most revered countries act really. Except for Indonesians, they are Patriotic to the bone.
@Jacob Hicks I agree to a point, but there is also a huge number of Canadians who do think this place is always the best, always the purest, always the most noble, the way things are done here is the smartest...blah blah blah. Why can't people just see the good and the bad and go from there?
Same here in ths U.S. At anyone point in the US, 50% of Americans hate the country.
@@MionMikan Wanting to be realistic about the issues of a country and fix them is not "hating" the country. Don't be ridiculous
@@stefan6347 as an Indonesian, I despised the country so much that if the country decided to renounce my citizenship, I'll celebrate it gleefully
As a norwegian i feel you on the whole, your country is a perfect paradise with no problems stereotype lol.
Every country have its issues and its weird simon acts like otherwise
Yeah. Im a New Zealander who is quite involved in Australia.
I feel you. Both of these countries get made out to be fairy lands but there are very real problems.
Too many liberal Americans have tried to explain to me how nz is perfect before
It seems especially weird with Norway. I knew someone who claimed they were from Norway and they mentioned that life in Norway is boring _because_ it's so perfect and stuff...like, even if that were true, how? Wouldn't familial, work, personal, and other kind of non-governmental struggles come up in your life? I'm an American whose lfe si (relatively) comfy from a fianciall standpoint but like...I still have strugglles that keep it from 'boring'.
Okay but hear me out: All things equal, and disregarding cultural differences for a moment, would you prefer to live in Norway or America?
@@Adahop not saying I'm not privileged and lucky to be born in Norway, i fucking love it here. Just saying sometimes people make it out to be some incredible fairytale land. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things tho✌️
As an American who has watched a pretty good amount of Simon’s videos, there’s been plenty of times when he’s talked about the US that made me want to say “wait hold up that’s just not true”
Simon gets so much wrong he is pretty much a waste of time
Same man. American here and I've felt the same way watching his videos.
No wonder why I can't ever watch more than a couple of his videos without my brain hurting a little. I can't put my finger on it, but he talks like when someone wants to sound smarter than they actually are. Not saying Simon is retarded, but either him or his writing team needs to improve their writing skills.
I’m an American watch his videos pretty recreationally, usually for background noise while cooking and occasionally picking up fun facts. I’ve never noticed his comments on the US. Do you mind saying the statements or the videos if you remember them? Really curious as to what he said about the US ha ha.
@@DynamicDurge - I would classify him as a useful idiot.
Ah yes, the British, French and Native Americans living in politeness during the Seven Years War, the Red River Rebellion, the Conscription Crises, the Indian Act and the 60s crisis
Crown Prince of Manitoba ah yes, and we were being especially polite when we killed off like, 90% of our bison population to hurt our First Nations. And weren’t the correction (I honestly forgot what they were called, I hope that’s right..) schools nice!
@@raiyne8089 Don't forget our antisemitic government in the 1930s and 40s
@@northchurch753 Don't forget our not sucking up to the Jews government in the 1930s and 40s
Don't forget the october crisis
Crown Prince of Manitoba correction ^^
Therapist: "British VSauce isn't real he can't hurt you"
British VSauce:
Ha!
He just looks like him. The real vsauce isn't full of cheesewizz
He doesn't have as glorious a bushy beard or as thicc nerd glasses.
@@plebjames British Vsauce: Cheezsauce
He's probably closer to Matthew Santoro than VSauce, honestly. The latter puts far more consistent effort into his content, whereas the former runs a similarly "quantity over quality" sort of thing.
This is why I quit watching Simon's stuff. He's stretched himself so thin, that you can't really trust his videos to be accurate. There's simply not enough hours in the day to do the level of research needed for those topics to ensure accuracy. His biases also tend to bleed through in a way that can be off putting. History and facts should be as objective as possible.
The channels usually have 1 or 2 writers and Simon is just a narrator (blind reading, so he usually has no idea about the vid beforehand other than its topic), so I'm not sure if the amount of content has that much influence on the quality.
If you've watched some Business Blaze / Brain Blaze stuff, you'll know that he actually tries to keep the amount of opinions leaking into it pretty low on the more serious channels, but yes, it still shows.
Basically, Simons videos are more entertainment than education. Basically edutainment which should not be used as a sole source of information.
I really like Simon but yeah. I mostly think of Simon stuff as a way to introduce you to something new and possibly interesting. When you go learn more you'll realize that Simon didn't give you a very in-depth or even accurate overview, but in the mean time he's got 35 more videos you can search for an interesting thing to go learn about.
The best example of that has to be his biography on Karl Marx… He states his opinion on the guy implicitly during the video and explicitly in the comments.
Oh, and also, includes a long ad for an expensive watch in the middle of the video 🙃
ever since he pronounced 'misled' as 'myzzled' i havent been able to take im seriously.
I won't call it smugness, there has to be a better word about that guy
Leave him alone he just has a Canada fetish. Don’t kink shame
Simon lives in Prague, which I hear is very nice.
Simon got a Justin Trudeau body pillow
The Rose of varesilles oh lord what does he do sith it
Is your profile picture the “Democracy Manifest” guy?
Nice name! 🦉
I bursted out laughing when he said, ” The foundation of Canada was French, English, and the Aboriginal People who coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness.” ...like pick up a Canadian history book... My god🤦🏼♀️
We coexisted with tolerance of extreme levels
In relative terms it isn't untrue. Generally such influxes result in out and out war. Or genocide. Canada has been a peaceful place for the vast majority of its existance.
The FACTS are this. ALL of what we now know of Anglo-Canada was first settled by Americans. The institutions were British but the culture was American. The British wave of immigration came later.
@@paulburley7993 Yes, basically true, although "American" doesn't simply mean "US citizen" as such: A good number of British Loyalists, "American" before 1776, and "US Citizen" after 1776 but still decidedly British, first populated Anglo-Canada. It must also be pointed out that American revolutionary forces forcibly tried to take British held Canadian lands and failed. AFTER that came a wave of US Americans.
@@alexwestconsulting Sorry but your statements make no sense to me. It doesn't matter that those Americans were "British loyalists" or Americans or U S. citizens or not. By 1776 there was a distinctly American people - the difference was a matter of politics only. It was this culture that first settled Canada and waves of British immigration failed to erase the fact that we are culturally closer to the United States. British held Canadian lands in 1776???? That in itself is an absurd notion. It is more accurate to state that the mother countries of Canada were France and the United States. The British part came later. It is culture that makes a country not politics. So although the institutions of the area we now call Canada were British the population and culture was decidedly American. You can split hairs from now to never but you can't rewrite historical fact. I am an extremely proud Canadian and like virtually all Canadians absolutely don't want to be American. I just hate historical revisionism that Canada since day one has been a party to. I guess it all fits in with our "love-hate" relationship with our American neighbours.
The true patriot loves his country while admitting its flaws.
Agreed. There are improvements we can do everywhere and in every nation. Ignoring such things only makes you ignorant of your nation's flaws which is idiotic if you feel like a patriot or nationalist of ot
Agreed. Nontheless, in regard to J.J., he blatantly criticizes Canada a lot and praises the US hugely. I'm convinced he would prefer to be American than Canadian.
@@mfvieira89 The reason he criticizes Canada more is because he lives there and and as a Citizen he has a deeper understanding of Canada's issues. Resuming: His channel is focused on Canadian politics and culture. So of course he criticizes more Canada than any other country but he also he talks more about it than any othet nation.
Also he's praised a lot of countries on his videos which doesn't mean he'd prefer to live in those places
@@HamishDuh2nd when exactly he said: "i''d rather be american".
@@HamishDuh2nd So he's never said: " id rather be American" He said most canadians would probably vote to join America because anti americanism in his words "one inch deep"
That doesn't mean he's part of the majority that would vote to join America, that's just his critical thinking.
Simon Whistler makes me wish RUclips had a "block content by" filter. He has so many channels it's near impossible to avoid him.
Each of those channels shitting out 2 videos a day + shorts
Basically a glorified Wikipedia
Yup, wished there was a “Simon Whisteler filter” option.
Blocktube extension
Simon whistler is a bottom feeder....a loser
I've lived in Canada my whole life and can't name one professional curler.
Same here.
That is kind of a trick question because curlers have to work other jobs to earn a living. I worked with a person who was the provincial mixed curling champion of my province and was almost the Canadian champion one year. I also went to school with the junior curling champion of our province. Also I don't know if you are a hockey fan or not but Bob Cole was a champion curler for years from our province.
Same
I lived in Scotland for a bit, another stereotypical curling country and the only professional curlers i know are hairdressers
Mike Harris.
As an American, most Canadians I’ve talked to online either can’t stand Trudeau as PM or are neutral on him.
As a Canadian most Americans I talked to can't stand their leader also. So I guess we have that in common. But at least out hated leaders to defend our single payer health care system we just wish they would improve it.
@@2727rogers Single payer is shit. The care you get over the course of all the taxes taken out over your life span is substandard.
@@humansvd3269 And still we live 4 years longer on average. So there is that advantage.
@@2727rogers You've neglected the amount of snowbirds and people with enough money to flee for immediate care in the US.
@@humansvd3269 Yes people who can't wait their turn for a non life threatening procedure do go to the US and pay for it. By the way that means a US citizen then as their procedure delayed so thank you for that. I can never understand for a sake of a month they would pay for something that would be free here. I guess they have no scruples and are usually our version of Republicans.
ah yes I love being canadian. time to run down to the dep and guzzle milk and maple syrup straight from the bag and can, then get slammed on molson and play curling
Here in the U.S i wake up n force an immigrant to make me a fat steak while i drink my beer n load my revolver.
TBH, I'm western Canadian and I've never seen milk in bags. That stereotype has always baffled me.
@@patiencedvrx I'm a EastEnder and yes we have milk bags
@@patiencedvrx Bagged milk used to be common in the west as well, but they slowly disappeared. Actually, you can still get bagged milk in the west if you order milk directly from the dairy company. I was watching a Dairyland delivery truck and they were unloading milk crates of bagged milk to a day care. This was just a few years ago!
@@linefrenette9116 The store has milk bags and my lady has fun bags!
Simon is like me doing my history projects. I usually just read the first couple of sources and improvise the rest.
Copy paste... change a few words. Essay done!
"The foundation of Canada was English, French, and the aboriginal people, who coexisted with each other using tolerance and politeness."
More like fought each other over dead beavers.
And slapped each other with the dead beaver's tails.
Under rated comment but dont forget about fighting eachother just because the french are french
@@TrueBlueKangaroo I mean ...
They are french
Coexisted....tolerance and politeness....I guess no one ever mentioned the Acadians to Simon Whistler.
@@majorramsey3k 😆😆😄😄😂🤣
Simon Whistler may say a lot of inaccurate things, but he’s got the best hair on RUclips.
Hey Vsauce Michael here
His hair is on the bottom of his face.
Anthony fantano hair...and teeth obviously
Most people have better hair than Simon Whistler on you tube.
You mean no hair.
Simon once made a video about the Australian economy and half the “facts” in his video were false and dramatised. Have to take what he says with a grain of salt.
@Pie Fish don't call them "right wing". Liberalism is left-wing. Rightists oppose the open market and open borders.
Pie Fish a right wing channel funds a very open and blatant progressive youtuber?
Always be sceptical of the British or else there accent might be mistaken for actual intelligence.
It was a joke
Totally agree. When i first saw his videos, they were slick and the host is an excellent narrator, but something about the videos bugged me to no end. It is nice to have some clarification now about why Simon’s videos annoyed me.
Simon Whistler is like a student who wrote an essay using only the first source they found when Googling basic information, without bothering to try and dig deeper if it got their essay finished.
He's like a weeb, but stan's Canada instead of Japan
a weeaboot?
Ehhhhhaboot
Canadaboo
Canada patriot
@Ornate Orator
His quite large collection of videos which go from "subtly" to "blatantly" anti-Russian show it too.
Just a YT presence pushing the overall "mainstream media" narrative, was the feeling I was left with after watching a few of his vids.
AFTER "WTF?"-ing and wondering just how many fuckin' YT channels he was a speaker on!
“Countries, Culture and Canada”
So it’s true then, Canada isn’t a country or a culture
The 3 C's of JJ™
Countries
Culture
Canada
Canada isnt a country. Canada is a primordial demon asleep. But one day it will rise up. That day has been predicted to be in this year.
@@sticks4632 Canada doesn't exist
Wake up sheeple
You heard it here first!
It's like when that comedy event advertised "famous comedians and George Lopez.
"The whole world looks up to Canada, and wants their leadership greatly."
UN Security Council: How about no.
I don't want to be mean but I don't think anyone looks up to Canada far as leadership goes and the UN is a joke
"Look up to" is a bit of a weird phrase to apply to a country, but Canada is generally well respected around the world.
That said, some of that respect (maybe a lot of it) comes down to our relationship to the US. In some ways we kind of get to play the "mean girl" who hangs out with the "ugly girl" to look better by comparison. The more the world hates the US, the better Canada appears. And at this point in history, thank's almost entirely to the current president, the US is about the most hated its been in decades by citizens of other nations.. maybe even ever.
@@altrag While the opinion of the US differs, that doesn't really mean Canada is any better. The US has a lot more immigration than Canada, so they are still an admired country. The US is still the #1 Military, #1 Economy, and the #1 Power in the world. Canada.... trys. But they try too hard to be so anti-american. They are cool and all but being so like America, Anti-American, partially separatist, and not too powerful, the UN just seemed kinda iffy on letting Canada into the SC. Canada just isn't as desired as many say it to be. One day, I'm sure Canada will have a chance. But for now, they have Tim Horton's.
@@random8226 Yeah, that's kind of what I'm getting at. Canada's dark side gets kind of overlooked because of our proximity to the US and their widely-known dark history.
Though I disagree about the US being a necessarily "admired" country. You can respect a bully's fist without liking or respecting the person swinging it. That's where the US is at right now -- we all want the economic benefits of being their "friend" but at the same time, we know they're unpredictable and kind of a dick and might turn on us at any moment.
@@altrag While I highly doubt that the us would ever turn on Canada, you are right the leadership currently is.... questionable. But Trudeau isn't an angle either. You are 100% right about the world overlook Canada's dark side. What I meant by "look up to" for the US is that if countries want it or not the US will be the big boi and there ain't nothing to stop it. The current political leadership is all over the board currently, and I'm sure it will settle down one day, but you are right.
Simon Whistler is an interesting character who proves you can be well informed and blatantly ignorant at the same time.
Simon Whistler disproves two commonly held stereotypes. First, anyone who wears glasses is smart. Second, anyone who speaks with a British accent is smart. 🤓
@NAA Apologist well stated
reading a script prepared by someone else, does not make him personally well informed.
@@thebeagles2025 good observation
I'm Canadian, and you are literally the first person I've ever heard pronounce about stereotypically Canadian.
@Ked Taczynski No they don't. He's clearly exaggerating as you say, and he does so inconsistently if you pay attention. It's an affectation.
@Ked Taczynski Idk, maybe you've been to way more places in this incredibly vast country than I have, but even though I live in sounthern Ontario and have been to Vancouver, I'm from Montreal, have been to Halifax, have friends from Newfounland, Calgary, Winnipeg and Saskatoon, and I've never heard anyone pronounce "about" that way
@Ked Taczynski he's putting on a Canadian persona because he's " Canadian RUclipsr " man. It's so fucking clear.
@Ked Taczynski No. I used to be a character actor and HAVE innately paid attention to accents and how people speak my whole life. But I don't think you have to be an "expert" on any level, which I'm not, to recognize this one is not typically Canadian at alll
dj diSi dude it can be a heritage thing .
Simon Whistler is a perfect example of how if someone speaks in a certain way they can hoodwink masses into thinking they are an informative voice.
Yup
It’s interesting seeing a 19 minute video of the pot calling the kettle black 😁
I had to stop following that channel. I HATE the way he speaks.
The glasses add something too.
I beg your pardon!
Is it just me or does J.J back up everything he says and my gawd is that refreshing. I absolutely love this channel and I’ve watched it non stop for two days lol! I love how he explains everything from so many points of view or if he can’t he makes a clear effort to be as fair as he is able.
J.J. Awesome work. Thank you so much for the content!
I just found this channel yesterday and I'm so refreshed. I'm still not positive on where he stands on most political issues and this is HOW IT SHOULD BE. It sounds like an oxymoron, but political education should not be political
Bro I swear I can’t find that boot you’re talking about
He's playing it up. People don't talk like that.
@@christer9304 I find it pretty annoying. He sounds like he's mocking a Canadian stereotype.
christer9304 well I hope he knocks it off, we don’t sound like that... in the west at least.
@Mark Struble No, he's born and raised in Vancouver and still lives in Vancouver. He's doing it on purpose.
@@Evil.Totoro He's acting, doing it on purpose, he's born and raised in Vancouver and still lives there.
“Leave you more ignorant of Canada” I feel that’s the case with almost every country he talks about. Can’t agree more.
I agree. It counts for Russia and Poland to. Bias. But ys, he is just reading scripts.
apparently every country that is developing and industrializing is going to become a superpower according to his videos, its annoying.
After he made a enormous mistake while talking about my country I simply never watched a video again.
He said that Croatia used the cyrillic alphabet before joining the EU and then had to adapt and use the latin alphabet.
@@lukel236 Luka Loieta Ha ha ha ha.... Well, I could even understand that he (or his Spanish team) Google about some country for one hour and than make a video and that they don't care is it true or not, but this theory about cyrillic used in Croatia before joining EU is not even stereotype, not even fake news produced by mainstream media, it is something I never her of anywhere. I have no idea where he could get such fasle information. In understand political bias and misinterpretation, but this is something that is not even that. It's like saying Berlin is the capitol of Austria, no connection to reality. Not pro left or pro right bias, it is simple something connected to facts which can be checked very easy, It is one thing if some youtuber ""informs" the public that Trump is literally Hi#ler, because according to his interpretation that is the fact, but this kindergarden. Even bigger mistake than calling Trudeau the president of Canada, or Trump the prime minister of the USA.
@@damirilic1989 ruclips.net/video/eCe2fTCBpkc/видео.html
This is the video I was talking about.
Try to find all of the mistakes, it is a fun activity for quarantine hahahahaha
When you order Vsauce on wish
😂😂😂😭😭😭 why didn't this gold of a comment didn't got much attention
That’s so fucking mean but so good lol
@@dhatrishdixit6004 👋 Maybe because most folk don't know what Aspect Dank is "speaking" on? 🤔
Care to decipher for those who ain't clocking?🤗
👁️ They, They Are The EggMen 👁️
lol
@@KC______ What.
I’ve always seen Simon Whistler as the kind of educational RUclips or that you watch when you are half asleep and don’t feel like thinking lol. All the veneer and validation of being educated without any of the effort
Lmao true most “educational” RUclipsrs and RUclips shorts makers. It’s because they would rather watch something simple than read a book.
Simon is just a presenter, leaning heavy on a British accent for the appearance of intelligence.
As soon as you see his videos that are him talking more freely that you see that he isn't all that bright.
Jeep any videos which showed him freely?
@@krateproductions4872 check the business blaze channel, I think he has a few more of him just reading a piece of paper and adding is "ocmments"
@@aloneiplay26 Exactly what I came here to say. It completely strips his credibility when you see just how little he actually knows and how willing he is to read whatever is put in front of him. And they sure do get him to read some rubbish on Business Blaze!
@@aloneiplay26 disagree but ok
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Ok, but when’s the diss track?
Hello DramaAlert nation, I'm your host Killer Keemstar! Let's get roooooite into the neeeeeeeews!
Love how he calls them a leftist government and then goes on to talk about privatization.
The liberals were the left government I would describe the liberals of 90s as Neoliberal.
Governments should not run businesses. Very inefficient and not their purpose.
@@hussain26049321 So was the original Trudeau even farther left? Since the liberals cut spending and privatized?
@@cnn8420 If the government runs it then it's not a business. You make no sense. And inefficient? Actually, capitalism is very inefficient. There's a ton of waste under capitalism, the products don't go to the people that need them. And you also got things like planned obsolescence, which is companies intentionally making their products inferior to make you buy more, which creates even more waste. Efficiency doesn't matter under capitalism, only profit matters.
@@austinhernandez2716 okay comrade
I'll never forgive VisualPolitik for implying that we chileans were almost crybabies who didn't appreciate what we had and that's why we protested in 2019. Also, according to their view the solution for our struggle is to liberalize our economy even further, as if there was even a way to do so in a country were water is privatized.
No dude, you need some of that sweet sweet Venezuelan socialism
Do keep in mind that Simon Whistler is more of a host that narrates articles for several different companies. His opinions may or may not be displayed accurately through said videos or articles
@Pie Fish most of his channels have a website attached. One of them is literally called toptenz.net. he doesn't even live in Britain, he lives in Prague
The_Dorklord JJ pinned a comment about that a bit after uploading the video
@WarmPotato I don't know about the other channels he works in, but when it comes to VisualPolitik (the channel where almost all of the examples highlighted in this video come from), he has literally zero creative control over it. Those videos are just the English version of a Spanish channel, down to the format, the pacing and the editing style.
Enrique Fonseca, the actual creator of the channel, has stated that he and his team have a very well defined work process that his entire team must follow so he doesn't need to micromanage everything. The only things that Simon add to those are basically his voice, his persona and likely some input in the translation process to make the script flow better in English. That's it.
“The foundation of Canada was English, French and Aboriginal...”
*angry Irish screaming*
Matt Frankman remember he’s just shoehorning stereotypes into his “analyses” and he seems to be acting, to me.
Also angry Scottish screaming I guess, but clearly the Celtic peoples in Canada basically assimilated into English culture.
Notice Mr. McCullough here is not wearing a kilt or talking in Gaelic or Scots.
Angry Everyone Screaming
@@Gamenetreviews Scottish did as they were protestants but many Irish were assimilated by the Catholic French-Canadian. Irish last names are everywhere in Quebec.
lajya01
Makes sense, that’s cool.
But J J... don't you see? None of that critique matters. He has a British accent, so he's automatically smart.
Britain - Shakespeare, Newton, Churchill, Darwin. Canada - Bob and Doug McKenzie, Terrance and Phillip.
@@fixpacifica to be fair we have the advantage of existing for thousands of years longer and a much larger population
@@fixpacifica I can literally put any old or big countries name write down the name of the geniuses found there.
I have seen material goofing on the American view that Britishers are smarter. Just look at the James Bond franchise.
@@fixpacifica Britain - Katy Hopkins, Piers Morgan, the entire cast of love island, Diane Abbott...
Canada - Wayne Gretzky and Terry Fox
Some people feel tempted to make Canada into a never-never land because no one knows enough about the place to challenge them on the details. Thanks, JJ, for challenging. As for Simon, he comes up with some interesting stuff, but he moves through it so quickly that you gotta think that you're being taken. His real goal seems to be how many words he can cram into each video without pausing to breathe or take a drink of water...
FYI - the VisualPolitik videos are not his. They are translated from a Spanish channel of the same name
Thanks for the info- if that's true, I'm probably never trusting him again.
Yeah, exactly, they are litteraly translations, most of the time is the exact same scrpit just translated.
@@FairyCRat He's a face for a lot of channels. He's a professional in pretending haha
He's a professional presenter basically, most of his scripts are written by other people, so the quality of them vary wildly
@Pie FishRight wing agenda?? Sure, you should watch more videos of them.
The political videos “made” by Simon aren’t made by him it’s made by the same channel in Spain
Geopolitics is simply the English version of the Spanish channel, Simon simply narrates the original video to English
So all incorrect info is from the Spanish narrator of the original channel and the lack of accurate info in Spanish
Just thought I would let anybody know
Just Vienna facts matter.
Facts
Good to know
What’s the name of the channel?
@@Queen_Olivene the name is Visualpolitik in youtube
Quarantine's making J.J. go so crazy he's decided to start some educational RUclips feuding LET'S GO BOISSSS ✊
@Pie Fish I've never seen anything by them but from what I've heard they sound like shite
Watch out for some "Top 10 RUclipsrs JJ's Afraid to Diss" type of video somewhere in the not-so-distant future.
@@ThinWhiteAxe then you need to watch some videos before commenting on something you know nothing about.
@@MJ-cc4uf that's precisely why I didn't say anything about VP specifically in my original comment, and when I did comment on them, it was with the qualifier "...from what I've heard"
@Pie Fish It sort of reminds me of the infographics channel, the whatever the heck Simon is in
I used to watch a lot of Simon's videos, just kind of got bored of them, but I did notice then that when he would talk about a subject that I actually have a decent amount of knowledge in (such as certain facts about music or musicians) that I would catch some inaccuracies
No way he writes his own scripts tho. That man is everywhere. He has to have been in tens of thousands of videos in the last few years
I know Danny writes his scripts for Business Blaze, he probably has several writers for the other channels
you can't avoid that large egg like head its everywhere
@@stephhhie17 He probably uses freelance writers/outsource writers.
@@stephhhie17 business blaze is his only good channel
Wikipedia
I read a sarcastic comment about Canada years ago:
'Canada could have had French culture, English government, and American know how but has French government, English know how, and American culture' - crack that manages to slam 4 countries at one time.
Brilliant assessment
Wow, this person is savage.
they should put that in the oxford definition of Canada.
To be fair, English government is shit.
no one want French govt French culture or French know how..maybe French cuisine but even that is on the decline
When my favorite channel attacks my other favorite channel
I wouldn't go so far as calling it attacking. It's beautiful that we can see alternative viewpoints and discuss different perspectives with civility.
Same
I must say that I'm seriously shocked to see this, too. Because I love them both.
I feel like my parents are getting divorced 🥺
Yep. Just to be clear, if it’s not Business Blaze. It’s probably not my opinion. And I know, I know... so why present it then? Well that’s how I make a living.
The whole media world is full of people who don’t actually know what they’re talking about loudly and confidently proclaiming their genius.
"Strong economy"
*laughs in Albertan*
Alberta! The Texas of Canada. Sincerely from an Albertan
We struggling
We need 100 million barrels of oil a day to ship out...... Let's stop the oil field. Oh okay?
We didn't need that money🤣🤣🤣🙂
@@RobiticDuck alberta is such a texan name tbh
"Some curlers are celebrities"
I don't know a single professional curler, from any country.
Nice rack you have there.
You on some shit if you don’t know who Jennifer Jones is😤😤
I know Ryan Fry, Olympic champion........... only because he and my dad were friends in school.......
Elias Frost BIG fax every Canadian knows Jenny!
Sandra Schmirler the Cancer Curler bro, come on
I would say the Tragically Hip qualify as worshipped in Ontario, but like the milk bags that's probably another example of people thinking Ontario and English Canada are the same thing.
I thought Ontario was part of English Canada? Don't tell me Quebec is trying to take over Ontario, too. Yikes! If so.
Yea people assume that Canada has all these things that only Ontario seems to have, at least in the quantity portrayed when each Canadian province is different.
Even within Ontario people assume Ottawa and a narrow slice of Toronto are the whole province. It surprises a lot of people in Ottawa when I tell them that most people in Ontario aren't bilingual and wouldn't qualify for a government position if they applied.
@@northchurch753 Thanks! I'd like to visit other Canadian provinces besides Ontario and Quebec. I really want to go to Edmonton.
@@Jackoosh1 I've only been out in the sticks in Ontario, in Minaki. When you could actually drink water straight from the Winnipeg River. I like Canada quite a bit. Hell, I even liked Montreal. I'd live in Canada, but they won't have me.
If this guy came to Alberta he’d be in for an insane culture shock
Simon: canadians love immigration
alberta and quebec: am I a joke to you?
Actually from all the Albertans I’ve met (me included) we are fine with immigration
@@raiyne8089 well we met different Albertans cause I don't know very many Albertans that support immigration. (I don't personally care as long as it doesn't interfere with peoples lives)
Mostly because Alberta wants to sell as much petroleum as possible, but because it doesn’t have a coastline, it has to rely on the willingness of other, Liberal provinces in the east and west who are less enthusiastic about more oil pipelines in their lands.
Add BC since 97
Except Texas has a coastline
Simon always seemed like he was trying to be Vsauce for pop history even though a lot of the time his stuff is buzzfeed level
He has a very good biography channel, I don't follow the rest.
@@rohankishibe8259 biopics is a solid channel, but I adore business blaze. It's just so pure.
Nahh, simon is really good in many of his channels
Vsauce: Disney
Simon: Hannah-Barbera
His stuff is bland, stereotypical, and slanted. It took me too long to realize it. Jajaja
I specifically voted against Justin Trudeau in his first election because of the statement he made: "The budget will balance itself." It showed a complete lack of knowledge about finance, and frankly, scared me.
It's not a stupid statement. What he means is that more social spending will stimulate the economy and lead to more revenue in taxes. Whether it happened or not is a different story.
Sadly you were right
if that was usa he would then be on the fbi list for election tampering
And look at where we are now 😂. Sure as hell didn’t balance itself out.
@@Nimish204 and now that he's increased social spending 3000% more than he said he would, the budget has finally balanced itself.
British Babish is the definition of a pseudo intellectual. He talks in run-on sentences and leaves nothing as an open discussion for his viewers. I, too, am Canadian and found his clickbait 'I heart Canada' to be cringe.
And thats a subject you know about. Imagine how many other videos are just like this, but because you don't have any expertise in that field, you just can't recognize it.
As a Canadian, I would argue The Tragically Hip is worshipped - at least where I live. Their last in-person concert was pretty well a holiday.
As a Canadian, I will say something blasphemous, and say, ALL OF THE HIP SONGS SOUND THE SAME. (drops mic)
@@strongarthanyew8650 The Hip is super overrated, like they're a good band with some good songs but they're not the national treasure they're made out to be.
who?
@@originalname1035 the first baseman
Ask Canadian too I'm triggered by Canadian stereotypes it just makes me mad most things are fake about Canadians I know no nice Canadians and only around like Ontario Quebec area how big milk and stuff and the accents they think all Canadians have are in the east side of Canada so yeah not every Canadian has a accent in fact most of us are much like Americans
If he made a video about America using stereotypes as he did with Canada it would be like: After deporting 3 million mexicans and starting another war in the middle east the American walks down to mcdonalds to buy a quarter pounder with cheese.
ArmchairWarrior
Lmfao all Canadians think Americans are fatasses but they really not instead it’s becoming a home for those annoying ass metropolitan vegan. When you visit I guarantee you won’t see a bunch of walruses and elephants.
in fact most people who are overweight in America either kill themselves or starve themselves because of how much they got bullied.
@ArmchairWarrior exactly thats the joke
SLAMO
Well I can’t speak for Denver or the Midwest cause I never lived there but I feel like those odds are a little exaggerated. I can speak for New York and Massachusetts and Connecticut and New Jersey. Which is like almost like 50 million population total more than Canada’s entire population. East coast which most people decide to live in isn’t crowded with obesity.
where's the lie tho
The last time I was this early JJ still was rockin the moustache
The last time I was this Early, JJ still had dyed hair
Update, he has his mustache back and he’s in his final form.
He has a lot of great content, but when you pump out as much as he and his team does, they're bound to show their bias and get quite a bit wrong.
Then they shouldn't pump out as much.
Brain blaze is the only channel I religiously watch anymore.
"You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."
- Michael Crichton
I've heard this quote and it's very true.
Waldzkrieger this is exactly why I didn’t watch any Visual Politik videos after I saw his “analysis” on the Latino vote in the US. Complete trash, so I’m sure the rest is too. Just keep scrolling the RUclips feed.
Nathan Gale what was it like?
Thanks for sharing that excellent quote. I’m now going to add that to my collection of “quotes to live by”
@@JJMcCullough It said that Latino vote was going to be vital in the next elections because Latinos are growing and mainly live in the most important states for elections: Texas and California. Which would be true if they were swing states, but Oh no! They aren't!
Yeah. A lot of bs.
Did this man really say that the English, French, and Native Canadians coexisted peacefully through politeness and tolerance? Tell that to the 215 Native children found buried at the school. Wow!
No, he said it's a theory.
Ik as Canadian every time I hear that a new set of native children bodies were found in Canada I just got mad natives make this country a great place
@@alanavonrichter6083 Eh natives aren’t doing too good rn, lots of them need rehab and our government doesn’t do shit for them.
They cant accurately detect 215 Native children with GPR. That simply is not possible until they exhume the grave which they did detect. Look at what GPR data looks like, then watch the Kamloops conference with the Sarah Beaulieu who ran the GPR test. Also, he is generally wrong but the French settlers and indigenous people did indeed have a good relationship in comparison to the British settlers during the fur-trade era. Many of them even engaged in interracial relationships. The church is, and always will be, the problem. Ask the dead Irish kids, they faced the same fate.
Sure the last 1000 years just proves the English and French cant coexist peacefully.
I remember Simon making two videos about Poland.
One was praising them for their economic prosperity and relentlessness & history.
The second one was baselessly just shitting on their politics for 10 minutes. Don't know what kind of sources he was reading on that one. That video has one his highest dislike to like ratios.
James Brock Those videos are from some Spanish guys who make visualpolitk. Simon just translates.
Yes, I saw those videos, and you're right.
What happens is that they are "almost libertarian", just as they defend Polish anti-communism (in the video on the economy) they also hate Poland for being proud of their land and not wanting open borders with countries with an archaic and decadent culture.
@Vasian Vasianich it's actually the mouthpiece of a German venture Capital firm, but yeah, that's true.
Vasian Vasianich please don’t call them American, they try to tear down our country as much as others for standing up for itself.
Well, the second video you mentioned is indeed a simplified version of what was going in Poland in terms of democracy and supposed shift towards authoritarian rule. But I wouldn’t say it’s completely baseless. In fact, Polish society is witnessing a change, the ruling party has exploited some very tangible issues people had during the rule of the previous government and addressed them with populist fashion. Actually, the Law and Justice government set up a bunch of lavish spending programs, and thanks to it, they are deemed as very many “average Poles” as the only party that kept their promises. It’s giving them a huge boost in polls and also on the elections day. Some people argue that law and justice went straight to just “buy” votes because - and it’s not a coincidence - some large sums were spent on pensions for senior citizens a couple of weeks before the elections. They even repeated this trick now., during the run-in to the presidential elections slated for May 10th. Btw the ruling party is unyielding amidst the calls to postpone the elections due to ongoing pandemic. And they have recently passed a bill which changes the way the elections will take place (it’s going to be now a mailing vote), even despite the rules that state that such changes should not be made that quickly. Anyway, it shows that Law and Justice party disregards the constitution and obviously the EU which tries to deter the Polish government from doing so. I really think that Poland drifts toward some soft of authoritarian rule because the system of checks and balances introduced in the constitution has been irreversibly harmed by this party and lost its meaning. I want to say as well why this particular video got too many dislikes. It’s because Poles have a remarkable trait of some sort of “national unity” which turns on rather subconsciously when they detect the criticism of their country. They believe that the image of Poland should be pure at least to foreigners. It’s, of course, a stretch because not every Pole feels like that but people I met and talked with kinda proved I wasn’t wrong.
@@TheRevdWorm Very interesting, thank you for for your comment.
Thanks for reminding me how easy it is to frame complete BS in a totally believable presentation.
According to Simon:
*When a Canadian touches someone*
"Eh sorry man would you like to solve this problem over a cup of maple syrup in my home"
According to Simon:
*When a Canadian breathes*
“Eh buddy sorry there eh come over now for some syrupy curling eh? Buddy come on now do forgive me mon chéri”
I read this in the strongest Canadian accent. lol
All Canadians fit somewhere between that stereotype and the guy who cut that kid's head off in the bus
@@JaredJonesAZ That guy is Chinese actually
@@bobby_c07 citizen or by ethnicity. If he were Chinese you'd think he would be deported,
"The English, French, and Aborignal co-existed" HA. Tell that to an Aboriginal
Or a french person, or anyone who has taken high school history...
Isn't a aboriginal a Australian native?
@@DaveMiller6042 nah we are here in North America and South America too.
@@Nechayev_ k
@@DaveMiller6042 The word aboriginal means the same as "native". Different (post-)colonial nations refer to their respective native populations in different words. In Australia, the common word is Aborigine, which is why the word is sometimes understood to mean the Native Peoples of Australia. But it can also mean essentially any person that is "native".
In Canada you won't find sunshine, lollipops or rainbows, but we occassionally enjoy chinooks, slurpees and northern lights. So take that simon.
Albertan?
So you guys enjoy dual rotor helicopters, cheap gas station slushies, and trippy sky visuals? Sounds American AF! 🇺🇸 😂
You'll definitely find rainbows but in a political way
@@TheBrianFlanagan a chinook is a weather pattern of warm air in cold weather caused by the doming of clouds over the rockies. There are a few places in the US which border the mountains and could potentially get a chinook but it's mostly a Southern Alberta thing.
As a Native Canadian,
It's impossible to find a job...
I've applied to every possible job position being hundreds of positions that I'm able to do and guess what, false promises of hiring natives first and being shoved aside. Maybe I should sue all these major companies I've applied for that promise to hire native people.
Simon Whistler is literally the only person on youtube that if he pops up on my screen I have to close it immediately. I'm not sure what it is about him.
I watch some of his stuff, but with a grain/ block of salt. I grew up in some smug Left California, so I learned early where to discount pleading/exhortational discourse. He comes across as a Leftwing capitalist. Oxymorons are.
He makes me feel racist towards Brits, which makes me feel very uncomfortable.
@@badluckcity I felt uncomfortable just reading that sentence
His fake smart persona while espousing things he is clearly ignorant about is it
I enjoy his biography channel, but, while seemingly objective, they do leave some things out. His video on Kaiser Wilhelm failed to mention his political success with the Ottoman empire.
Simon's videos always have factual errors whenever I watch videos on subjects I'm personally familiar with which leads me to believe that those errors are also present on subjects that I'm not familiar with.
That is the only logical conclusion. I can't know what is wrong with everything because I don't know everything. But if you are very wrong about what I know, I can no longer trust you to tell me the truth about what I do not.
Excellent deductive reasoning
Gell-Mann amnesia
ALL THE BRAZILIANS WATCHING THIS ALSO REALIZED SOMETHING.
Paçoquinha
Paçoquita Porra!!!!!!!!!!
@Jaden Grant they got some fine women though 👀
@Jaden Grant Don't be so harsh. My country may be somewhat of a dirt-hole, but not a SHIT-hole.
POÇOQUITA
Simon Whistler is 100% how I found this channel. Shrug. Thanks algorithm gods.
Virgin Simon Whistler vs Chad JJ McCullough
Simon Whistler is a reader of other people’s videos. If you watch closely he has no idea what he’s actually talking about.
JJ has a fake accent.
Simon & JJ are both Beta Males 😂.
@@nochatter7134 lmao
I can't believe how you just obliterated him like that, whilst being so unmistakably Canadian, ie polite about it. Bravo!!
I mean I’m not saying all Canadians are nice, but when I visited Ottawa, I only heard a horn from a car from New York.
That's just a new york thing even in America. Here in California and pretty much rest of the country nobody honks horns unless it's necessary.
Whats the one country where everyone honks to make the stop light turn green faster
@@brownjatt21 Specificically NYC. I live in Texas and have been to upstate NY and nowhere have I heard a honk.
@@christopherrivera9827 India?😂
@@brownjatt21
lotta honking in ch town
This is the kind of content I love: makes a case and backs it up with specifics.
I love how easy J.J. takes every argument of Simon apart. It would be great to see some more J.J. destruction of other youtubers who talk stuff about things they didn`t actually understand.
I'm open to nominations!
@@JJMcCullough your emotional maturity is something I would like to reach...
I’d like him to have a discussion or debate with Justin Ling
Maybe some mainstream shows?
@@JJMcCullough how about PragerU's videos such as the one about Israel and etc hahaha
Why do I imagine J.J silently grumbling to himself when he’s reviewing the Canadian myths section?
Last time I was this early, Canada was still split into upper and lower variants.
As a New Zealander I feel like we have a similar problem a lot of American and Europeans like to make it out that our country is perfect when in reality there is plenty of conflict
"When it's actually a pretty fringe sport that most Canadians know nothing about" my Canadian highschool offered a Curling class that I took for two years and IT WAS AMAZING!
ok
@@mybodyisreggie2759 oh, it was better than ok. It twas AMAZING!
@@mybodyisreggie2759
Being a dismissive lil shit when someone is showing pure joy for something isn’t cool. You just come off like a loser.
@@mayaw.4013 ok
@@mayaw.4013 he’s being dismissive because the OP either a) completely missed the point of what she was trying to prove as false, or b) is agreeing with JJ about Canadians not knowing about curling; unknowingly proving JJ right.
When SW pronounced "Siouxsie and the Banshees" as, "Soo-ksie and the Banshees", I had to ask does he actually know anything, or is he just an autoprompt reader?
I encounter this A LOT on YT - people who’ve apparently never heard the words they’re using ever spoken aloud. Thank goodness Siouxsiesioux didn’t spell banshees in the original Gaelic…
..and it just came up on my newsfeed, someone in wildlife services studying coyotes in Alberta pronounce them "KAIyotes" (not kaiYOtees"), when talking about the sightings in Stanley Park..
@@taniakol Coyotes? That's how we say it in the valley.
@@liamthibaudeau8966 Well you're weird lol. Not my hill to die on :- ).
@@taniakol That is your *own* ignorance showing as it's a regional pronunciation (western) that goes way, way back.
thank goodness, an actual Canadian explaining Canada to the world, good on ya Bud!
Some people think that it's just an American liberal thing to have this rose tinted view of Canada/its politics, but as someone from the UK I can confirm it's also a thing among British left wingers too. Kind of reminds me of Bill Burr's little bit on Conan about how Canada isn't some 'post racial paradise', lol.
(For the record I have friends from Canada and from my visit there it seems like a nice place, but it has its problems like any other industrialised first world country).
"The English, French, and Aboriginal people of Canada who coexisted with peace and tolerance"
Yeah, no.
no
4:58 "high rates of immigration exist in spite of not because of public support" sounds exactly like the UK
@Charles Gnarley I felt that in my heart
@Charles Gnarley I agree lad, well I see conservative politics coming back into vogue soon hopefully
@Charles Gnarley Whoa, that was deep and very accurate. Particularly the part when progressives cheat and call themselves "on the right side of history"
@Charles Gnarley Hitler was a leftist. He believed in government control of almost everything. Mussolini was a leftist. Socialism is a leftist ideology.
Well, this comment section has moved into a very dangerous area.
For one, I am surprised that people deem conservative politicians as "too submissive" to progressives, despite the clear numerous examples of the clear opposite. Were the conservatives submissive for the past year when they tried reopening the country basically every month? Were they submissive when Trump got the US out of multiple international organizations for dirt poor reasons? Were they submissive when everyone was citing mail ballots as the downfall of democracy, and went from a trial to another despite repeated failure to even provide evidence?
If those are exanples of conservatives being too submissive, I don't want to imagine what you invision as "authentic/unrestricted conservatism". Additionally, I haven't heard the phrase "on the right side of history that often apart from matters of basic human rights for minorities or climate change. While I can admit that progressives definitely do not hold a monopoly over objective truth, it is hard to argue that you are not on the wrong side of history when a big part of your movement denies basic science showing the degradation of the environment for the past decades. The same "submissive" movement, that despite the advice of the vast majority of scientists, still cut lots of regulations meant to protect the environment.
Also, claiming that Hitler and Mussolini are left wing is like claiming that Stalin is right wing because he enforced fervent nationalism, Russian superiority complex, and removal of the rights of minorities.
I'd like to see the leftist agenda behind the Holocaust, or the New Roman Empire of Mussolini.
I respect his candid personal views and l really appreciate the fact that in his videos he is not out there bashing Americans like so many others. I agree with some of his points and disagree with others. But at least he is willing to admit that , as with all countries, his country has it's own imperfections.
He lives in the Czech Republic.
This is what I feel a lot of people are missing.
Yea him and his team mess up, but they’re fully able to admit that they say some stupid shit sometimes. I don’t watch toptenz or TIFO much and those are his more serious channels but on casual criminalist or brain blaze it’s refreshing to see a RUclipsr be so candid and not have an on-screen and off-screen persona… it’s just him reading a script, and his script writers nowadays are top notch, idk who wrote the Canadian ones but Danny, David, and Ilsa are the cream of the crop
Simon whistler started talking about South Korea but he omitted the most important fact... Park Chung-Hee and his military coup d'etat is what built modern day South Korea.
Most westerners just don’t know that South Korea and Taiwan used to be very repressive military dictatorships in which all leftists (and suspected leftists) were exterminated.
@@thomasprat7760 yeah Korea was an ugly war on both sides
@@thomasprat7760 Gotta do what you gotta do to survive. The thing is that they reformed as opposed to China and North Korea which are still horrible opressive dictatorships.
Not to mention the efforts of Syngman Rhee before him
“He” *(Actually VisualPolitik isn’t written by him, is a spanish speaking team from Latin America)* isn’t “progressive”, they are Neoliberals. A great deal of difference.
Not really. They both support mass immigration, multiculturalism, social liberalism, the erosion of native tradition, sovereignty and identity. So their overall agenda is basically the same, no matter how opposed their ideologies may theoretically be.
@@TomorrowWeLive Is that a fascist profile pic?
@@Zecronym yup
@@TomorrowWeLive yeah, 'cause those are the only issues that exist
Right, in one of their Spanish language videos I recall them trying to link the Shining Path in Peru to Cuba based solely on an accusation by some politician made at a time when very little was even known about the Shining Path and at a time when it was fashionable to link all movements to Cuba to get US support. If you know anything about communist movements in Latin America you know this is a complete joke. They are completely uninformed spreading nonsense. JJ got it right, quantity over quality and you are right too, these are libertarians not "progressives".
As a non canadian I had no idea Justin Trudeau is a “legacy” politician, this puts him under a totally different light.
As a Canadian, I'd like to apologise for BOTH our national jokes named "Justin".
>“legacy” politician
They're called "Borutos"
You thought he won on his wisdom and experience? He’s an airhead.
He's our media's idol basically
Don’t let anything Justin Trudeau says or does fool you… he’s an idiot who few actually want in office
14:15 Canada was considered a member of the third world? So a non-aligned country during the cold war? That sentence made no sense.
I'd like to add this his videos even on Britain, his native country, are generally very inaccurate. His videos generally remind me of a first year university student's essay, that is to say difficult to sit through, and not very accurate.
Simon Whistler doesn't write the script. The script for VisualPolik come from the original channel also called VisualPolik that's a Spanish-language channel from a guy in Spain.
@@teddyjones3093 What's that got to do with the price of fish? It's still shoddy workmanship.
@@justsomeguy803 I was pointing out that Simon Whistler doesn't write the scripts to those videos.
@@teddyjones3093 I know, he even pointed that out in this video. It's still shoddy workmanship.
@@justsomeguy803 It's not his fault though. It's the Spanish guy's fault