If you don’t have a specifically leftist dictionary to pull from you can get completely lost in the channel’s propaganda. None of that they say is offensive to your average American knowledge of the world, and it’s not like they’re overtly fascist about it either. If you aren’t going in knowing ahead of time what neoliberalism is you might even consider their ideas and solutions to be worth trying out. It’s not like you know better. But then you come back at it with a more complete understanding of the world and then you can see how fucked up what they’re saying is. They cloak their poison behind such masterful manipulation tactics that even those who know better can get caught up in it.

This isn’t a channel going around denying genocide or siding with nazis, they’re throwing platitudes and manipulating your emotions. It’s all equally dangerous but when you’re in the deep of it you won’t notice any of that. This is why all of the most effective propagandists are all science channels; they don’t have to risk revealing themselves as monsters by taking a political stance, they can just defer to the data and then sneak in ideology when interpreting it to the audience. After all, everything they say is backed up by science, and the rest is just their opinion.