The internet is the largest propaganda machine in human history in it's current state. These dudes have bots to rack up views and influence recommended videos in order to get into public consciousness. Definitely has to be some money in the background as well. Each time one of these right wing nuts get exposed another is immediately propped up (i.e. Milo to Jordan Peterson). Their ideas cannot survive or gain favor without a spokes person constantly pushing them.
Real Talk: What's motivating all these alt-right Internet guys?
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Yeah, the internet and its allowance of anonymity and "safe spaces" (youtube comments/xbox live chats) pretty much made it easier for this to fester and eventually give them the balls to come out of the dumpsters of the internet. Obama '12 was just another match to the fire.
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better than it used to be
back in the 90s/early 2000s I use to be able to browse the web without seeing any of this shyt. I would have had to actively searched it out back then.... now it's every where
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IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
It's because we called them racist and didn't engage with them in polite dialogue about ideas.
we said for years right wingers would win on the internet....
A lot of it stems from an inability to get the things that they think they're entitled to.
Attractive women. High paying jobs. Respect from peers.
These dudes see people from other backgrounds reaching success and rather than question why they failed, they choose to play the blame game and cry about affirmative action.
It snowballs from there as we’ve seen.
Attractive women. High paying jobs. Respect from peers.
These dudes see people from other backgrounds reaching success and rather than question why they failed, they choose to play the blame game and cry about affirmative action.
It snowballs from there as we’ve seen.
when the face of the dem party became feminists and trans
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Read this quote from the NYTimes article about Alex Jones being sued by the victims of Sandy Hook. I think it applies here:
The online tactics of the alt-right (trolling, sh*tposting, memes, trivialization of serious offences like pedophilia) are very dehumanized patterns of behavior. It's tribalism in a cheap, digital tuxedo.
I also think many people believe they're somehow smarter because they know how to navigate the internet.
In a strange way, having the collective sum of human knowledge at everyone's fingertips has made intelligent discussion much more difficult. Too many knuckle-draggers still falling for intellectual versions of a Nigerian Prince scam email.
The online tactics of the alt-right (trolling, sh*tposting, memes, trivialization of serious offences like pedophilia) are very dehumanized patterns of behavior. It's tribalism in a cheap, digital tuxedo.
I also think many people believe they're somehow smarter because they know how to navigate the internet.
In a strange way, having the collective sum of human knowledge at everyone's fingertips has made intelligent discussion much more difficult. Too many knuckle-draggers still falling for intellectual versions of a Nigerian Prince scam email.
We have an entire subsection of the internet acting as if some random dude calling himself Q posting vague nonsense dressed up as a CIA cipher is real. People playing pretend on the internet stopped being this ha ha 'there aren't any real women on here' thing and into some scary shyt that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people take seriously.Read this quote from the NYTimes article about Alex Jones being sued by the victims of Sandy Hook. I think it applies here:
The online tactics of the alt-right (trolling, sh*tposting, memes, trivialization of serious offences like pedophilia) are very dehumanized patterns of behavior. It's tribalism in a cheap, digital tuxedo.
I also think many people believe they're somehow smarter because they know how to navigate the internet.
In a strange way, having the collective sum of human knowledge at everyone's fingertips has made intelligent discussion much more difficult. Too many knuckle-draggers still falling for intellectual versions of a Nigerian Prince scam email.
We have sovereign nations attempting to poison our political process and people, some of them on THIS very site, acting as if that doesn't even matter. What the hell has happened to critical thinking. Are people so deeply partisan at this point that NOTHING that happens from a side that's clearly uninterested in anything but self enrichment will be met with thunderous applause?
This isn't a fukking joke, his stupid gaffes and memes and all that aren't funny. This is serious shyt, politics is serious, the damage this administration is causing is serious, the geopolitical global paradigm shift is serious, stop laughing. Stop making it a sport where you have a team.
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The past couple months I listened to and read alot of Angela Nagle interviews and lectures, and similiar analyses. Gamergate seems to be the tipping point for how massive the online presence of these dipshyts has become. And even though I use the term myself, I still don't feel completely comfortable saying "alt right". These lame ass bytches are white supremacists, we shouldn't be assisting them in rebranding their ideology to make it more palatable for public consumption. The Associated Press took a similiar stance last year and decided to use the term in quotation marks in their reporting.
Even though they encompass a wide swath of fools with varying degrees of focus, be it neocons, "southern heritage" advocates, extreme red pillers, gamers and the like, the major binding theme amongst them all is still race based.
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The government has fukked over our public schools.
This is the result of teachers who railed against standardized testing for HS assessments. "Teach to the test"
While I agree that this has happened, I can't really put it on public schools.
After all it's not just younger people on this bullshyt, a lot are older and from relatively good neighborhoods.
To be honest I think FOX News has literally fukked over the country. You have like 40% of the population that doesn't believe ANYTHING they don't cosign.