> why would you even watch this [person’s] videos analysing Ukraine war? Because that was how you began life. Your parents (and later/lesser, primary school t

> why would you even watch this [person’s] videos analysing Ukraine war? Because that was how you began life. Your parents (and later/lesser, primary school teachers) were the source of answers on nearly everything. There’s probably something quite natural about transferring a belief of being competent/knowledgeable in one area into some expectation of the same in another area. It's the underpinning of the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy. It certainly works in the opposite direction: someone whom you know to pontificate out their backside on one topic, that expectation holds for the next, randomly chosen topic as well.