Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

  • HappyHam@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You actually believe that every single conservative is a fascist? Jesus Christ political literacy is dead

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      1 year ago

      Maybe you need to go have a read about fascism, then tell me, are the points presented becoming more or less similar to current conservative views?

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        1 year ago

        Oh, I don’t deny that a lot of Republicans are becoming fascists, but that is far from “all conservatives are fascists”.

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          Nooo, i finished my comment to you and then upvoted you while proof reading >_> turns out that kills the comment… ugh…

          If i could rewrite my first comment to just talk about conservatives then i would have. I’d rather focus on active threats of evil corp shenanigans.

          I agree that republicans are becoming fascists in the overt sense. My views are based more on that they are unknowingly fascist by actions, not awareness. Conservative policy in a nutshell is really just “We good, You bad” and power plays without any rational explanation. Can you really name any decent policies conservatives have? All i hear is hate, scapegoating, intensification of totalitarian power structures, increasing control for corporations, war and guns. Those things were key in Nazi Germany too.

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        I just use the term capitalism since there is no difference in the goals of either.