KelvarCherry

@KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  haha I paused a bit as I wrote that, too; but yeah. W Bush was stupid, a bad public speaker, and a warmonger… but he knew when to listen to his advisors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This might have been the case under sane leaders like George W. Bush, Mike Pence, and the last Democrats, but I think this outcome is improbable as 1) that didn’t happen when George W. Bush waged war over lies in the Middle East; 2) This administration is composed of hyped-up christo-fascists and their sycophants, and is goaded by oligarchs who want the destruction of the USA so they can buy up what remains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ^ this. The specific example in my mind was TikTok short-form manosphere content that flooded the internet in 2023.

  It doesn’t even need to have fake views. Content tagged with rising extremist views will naturally foster higher engagement—some of it from the absurdity; some of it from the growing group of people who believe it. Andrew Tate was a large part of promoting violent misogyny and patriarchy. The views never changed; they just became far more familiar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about quality. Most people use content just to fill a void. Look outside at the people around you. Just about everyone is looking at their phones on rides, listening to podcasts when walking. It’s just filler.

  The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space. All the manosphere/trad-life/christo-fascist/slopaganda crap flooded the internet, and then it became the norm—not because it was convincing, but because it was recognizable. People parrot what they hear; And that’s especially true for the majority of unintelligent folks who wish to masquerade as intelligent. It just so happens the masses heard a lot of “women/people of color/queers are destroying our great white Christian society”.

  There’s nothing about this that’s inherent to bigotry or conservative ideology; It’s just that USA conservative-aligned businessfolk bought up the outlets and skewed the scene a little bit in the favor of alt-right ideology. Over years that compounded, and now it’s seized the entire conversation. Perhaps lefties/liberals were hesitant to use those methods because they play to emotions, and not intelligence; But this is the reality of our current social sphere.