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I honestly don’t think any man is safe from this. I watched a guy I went to high school with who is 40 years old with a family full of lifetime Democrats go full on conspiracy theory Trump this year.
I think we need to ban podcast mics
Comment by randombubble8272 at 06/11/2024 at 21:39 UTC
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It’s propaganda, the increase in violent online games & right wing YouTube videos is massively impacting these young boys. Gamer talk is a common rhetoric on violent multiplayer games, it’s normal to verbally abuse people, call them slurs, threaten to kill or rape them etc. This normalises that kind of talk, it’s all a joke so surely it can’t be that bad is the mentality of these boys. They don’t see it as hate speech because it’s not directed at minorities, not understanding it makes this language comfortable for people to use.
Another problem is the algorithm on YouTube skews heavily right wing, it recommends conservative red pill videos to these boys. It quickly becomes an echo chamber, they think Trump is just talking smack and that he’s actually entertaining as a president. It’s just awful