it shouldn't be that amazing though. You watch a few cartoons and you can figure out who the dicks in life are. It's more amazing to me that so many people are so insecure and stupid that they seek validation from conservative assholes. Maybe because their respect is so hard to gain?
Wasn’t hard for most critical thinkers. Rather easy to spot the fake garbage. What surprises me is all of those who did fall for it. How are they that gullible? How could they not see it so clearly as those who could and still can? It’s an interesting phenomenon and should absolutely be studied!
I think you may be a bit overconfident and overgeneralizing there.
It's a pipeline, it gradually radicalizes you, it doesn't throw you into the deep end right away, that's why it's effective. And there doesn't really need to be fake stuff involved. Propaganda doesn't have to be lies.
My hypothesis is that religion primes people to believe what they're told without tangible evidence and suppress views that are contrary to a predefined conclusion.
Absolutely agree and have been saying this exact same thing for years! And it is true that I am theist so perhaps that’s what made it so easy for me to spot the misinformation. It’s a great point and one that should also be looked into. Does religion create gullibility in its followers?
My nephew has fallen into the right and he’s intelligent and well educated. As a young white male he feels persecuted and has become alienated so he buys into the angry right podcast crap. I get it but it’s still disappointing that he can’t see through it. it’s not uncommon among young males today
Not at all ~ he did grow up rather sheltered and privileged though ~ now on his own in NYC I figured exposure to new ideas would have given him new perspective
Anyway. I’m sorry to hear about your nephew. I honestly do not think it will last too much longer. I think the Trump hold is starting to loose a little grip on his followers. I hope he shakes it off!
Soemthing else that would be interesting to know would be how easy it might be to full the same sort of brain washing on the left. We are all so anti right and anti misinformation that it could possibly expose a way for someone to use that to brain wash us in the same manner? Though we tend to rsrch
I was in a few. I had issues with feminists at the same time as half of youtube atheists switched to antifeminism & politics but they were just making bad arguments.
Some pipelines also just didn't work on me. E.g. I have followed MMA for over a decade but I was always critical of the politics
I dodged it, even while living deep in the south in a radically christian fundamentalist family. Both my grandpa's were pastors lol, and both believed Obama was the antichrist.
thank god for the Internet, education, and critical thinking
I was forced to read it because both my parents are business majors who had a hardon for Libertarian crap when I was in middle school and I had the shit fortune to be a kid with college level reading comprehension.
I feel like having even a rudimentary drive to give a shit about others is why.
Dunno which epoch of Internet you mean but in my own politically formative years (00s) I was extremely online as well and I didn't decide to get sucked up any of those pipelines either.
I understand the impulse towards "amazement" but there's not that much to be amazed about if you hold the belief that people have moral agency and that various recruitment tactics, while they have strategies to deceive you for a time, are not ultimately magical mind control
I was just thinking the other day how there must be a bunch of kids who grew up with their parents blasting Rush Limbo & O'Reilley on their radios/TVs while taking them to/from school, etc. back in the day, & didn't get sucked into all that, so there were plenty of avenues to dodge beforehand, too.
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Sometimes we just have a destiny ig
no close calls with straight up Nazis tho I wanna be clear about that lmao
It's a pipeline, it gradually radicalizes you, it doesn't throw you into the deep end right away, that's why it's effective. And there doesn't really need to be fake stuff involved. Propaganda doesn't have to be lies.
Like I’m not the smartest guy but looking back there’s just literally no way I could have gone down that road, it just ain’t in me to be that way.
Some of you are bit snarky though.
Some pipelines also just didn't work on me. E.g. I have followed MMA for over a decade but I was always critical of the politics
Every day, I thank god I stopped watching anti-sjw/anti-woke slop channels.
thank god for the Internet, education, and critical thinking
I feel like having even a rudimentary drive to give a shit about others is why.