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Themes and arguments.

The arguments put forward or contested in the videos, grouped by theme and by period. Our local model draws them from a sample of political sentences, then they are checked against the sentences; each quote links back to its video.

The theme

Distrust of the state

Political sentences expressing libertarian ideas or distrust of the state, public services, taxation or norms.

Reliability of the classifier 0.90F1 0.65checked precision The method
Period
Last 7 days Last 3 months* 2026* 2025* 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2009–2017

The last seven days are read again every day. * provisional: part of the period’s videos are still to be transcribed. Greyed out: reading pending.

417
political sentences on the theme
61
sentences read
Waiting for our local model

Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.

The sample is ready: 61 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot tonight at 00:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.

The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 12.8% 15 videos
  2. Manosphere 10.5% 2 videos
  3. Conspiracism 14.6% 3 videos
  4. Culture 7.0% 1 videos

Mean share, per video, of the political sentences on the theme; each video counts once, from 20 political sentences.

Where the theme’s sentences come from
  1. Far right 83% 346 sentences
  2. Manosphere 2% 8 sentences
  3. Conspiracism 14% 58 sentences
  4. Culture 1% 5 sentences

This split follows the size of each orientation’s corpus: it describes the channel selection, not the weight each side gives the theme.

Arguments come from a sample shared by the territories. Only excerpts from channels in the selected country and their associated arguments are kept here; counts are recalculated.

While the reading is pending

What the videos say, sentence by sentence.

The sentences the classifier ties most clearly to the theme, taken from different orientations and channels; each one comes out of its video, which opens in a side panel.

  1. « Est-ce que le Québec va être encore dans le Canada? Ou on va être sortis du Canada parce qu'il y a eu un référendum gagnant? »

  2. « Que ce soit l'Alberta, le Québec, la Saskatchewan, je serais pour une véritable confédération dans laquelle chaque province a les pleins pouvoirs. et partage certains pouvoirs concernant peut-être la défense, »

  3. « Parce que là, en ce moment, ce qu'on voit, ce n'est pas tant de la neutralité de l'État, ce n'est pas tant de la séparation des pouvoirs, c'est vraiment un athéisme d'État. Les gens qui sont vraiment favorisés par ça, c'est les athées. »

  4. « qui était important à maîtriser, mettons, pour réussir à produire les comportements de santé, il y avait théorie de l'autodétermination. Il le disait dans l'article. »

  5. « Notre job à nous, ça va être de faire comme avec la Constitution, comme avec ça, comme avec tout le reste. Vu qu'on va être des centaines et des milliers de savoir et qu'on va être partout au Québec parce qu'on va faire l'auto tranquillement, tout le monde va en parler et un […] »

  6. « Alors oui, ça sert à les mondialistes aussi. Ils veulent des États militarisés. »

The videos

Where the theme weighs most.

Videos of the last four months, ranked by the share of their political sentences the classifier assigns to the theme; each record opens in a side panel.

  1. Ce soir Bill Gates et L’I.A. 09 septembre 2026. Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 10 September 2026
  2. Denunciation of legal proceedings initiated by Élections Québec Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 30 September 2026 · record
  3. Presentation of the Conservative Party of Quebec's justice and security plan Actualité Politique Du Québec · 29 September 2026 · record
  4. Presentation of Québec solidaire's proposals for families and the economy Actualité Politique Du Québec · 2 October 2026 · record
  5. 🚨 Fréchette sonne l'alarme : le PQ ferait fuir les investisseurs dès lundi soir! Actualité Politique Du Québec · 3 October 2026
  6. Discussion on spiritual hypnosis and the 2026 fuel price crisis Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 30 September 2026 · record
  7. Spécial Elections Qc Daniel Pilon Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur · 2 October 2026
  8. 24 septembre 2026. Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 25 September 2026
  9. 🗳️ PSPP à Québec : « Québec mérite mieux » — le grand appel de fin de campagne Actualité Politique Du Québec · 2 October 2026
  10. FNL ep800 - LA 800ÈME! 2026/09/24 NLB - FreedomNews · 24 September 2026

The percentage is the share of the video’s political sentences assigned to the theme (at least 20 political sentences and 5 on the theme).

The periods

The theme, year by year.

Political sentences on the theme by period; click a period to show it. The number also depends on the share of videos transcribed, which varies a lot from year to year.

754 2009–2017 295 2018 310 2019 94 2020 1.6k 2021 1.8k 2022 5.2k 2023 10.6k 2024 6.3k 2025* 1.2k 2026*
How the arguments are drawn

The theme’s political sentences are drawn at random by period, with quotas per orientation and a cap per channel and per video. Our local model reads the sentences without knowing their channel or orientation, groups those making the same argument, separates those reporting it in order to contest it and sets aside those off the theme. Orientation shares and quotes come from the sentences, never from the model. The last seven days are read again every day.

The detail in the method
Project paper