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Once someone buys into Nazi rhetoric it can take decades to deprogram them. How do you suggest this to be done when it takes far shorter amount of time to spread their rhetoric?

More like an interesting parallel. Being a firebrand from the otherside.

When I was young there was a lot of counter culture going on rejecting the status quo. There were lots songs about our harsh reality and there were still prominent and popular figures who railed against the atrocities of the world. I was born poor enough to not buy into the rhetoric and disenfranchised enough to hate the privilege that I did have. Make no mistake though there are a lot of bootlickers my age though.

Genz didn't even have these influences. They had Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate. We collectively failed them and offered them nothing but worship of money and power. They are a product of that reality, the end result of no one ever fixing anything. Being Sandwiched between the Boomers who I despise and these younger generations truly sucks and makes me doubt for our future.

I learned how technology worked on a level most don't understand. I played with DOS, wrote my own software, and was there for the start of social media when it was about empowering the individual instead of control the masses. I left when I realized what it had become. Generations after me never had that perspective to see the truth and were manipulate into complacency.

probably prefer MTG?

Give the racist asshats an inch and they will take a mile.

Because they are dishonest deceivers. It is like blaming the guy running against the man that raped you for the rape. Then doubling down blaming the guy who did not rape you after you are raped a second time.

I love threads like this. I can now block all the people who are here to lie and manipulate us. They are not here to have honest conversations.

Propaganda networks FYI.

I am a little disappointed this is not one of those pictures you need to squint to see. Someone should jam this and Gwyneth Paltrow's hoo-ha into stable diffusion. For humanity, of course.

Uhh your advocating for a nuclear holocaust? Not trying to judge, just curious.

You mentioned YouTube and although it is a commercial platforms there is a lot of independent news media on it. I think you already mentioned the Young Turks, but here are some others.

Democracy now

Some more news

The Majority Report

The Evening Brief

Breakthrough News

TLDR news

Secular Talk

PragerU

Some of these lean more towards opinion and commentary but that is just the world we live in.

Outside of YouTube I like Ground News. Although not a publisher themselves they can really help to figure out what is going on all sides.

I remember years of being told about left mainstream media. Like a mythical beast I have never seen it.

There was a lot more independence with journalism in the past, but it was also always tightly controlled.

I was around back when Bush senior took the presidency and all the media fell in line that it was not okay to criticize the President. There were of course exceptions, but for the most part it was clear dissent was no longer a real option.

I think Goodnight and Good luck is a great critical film to see how going back before I was even born that journalism had already been brought and paid for. Independence was always an illusion.

I was just referencing newspapers. It is easy to study newspapers and their articles throughout history to see the bias they had because of who owned them. This can help inform us to how modern media is ran.

My wife studied broadcasting in college and I am acutely aware that all media stories come from a few select sources. The control is very real and there is shockingly little independence.

We no longer need monolithic entities to help create news. The cost to record and produce this stuff is a fraction of what it used to be and distribution is handled by the Internet.

I find your parasite comment a little appalling considering even mainstream news borrows most of their stories from entities like Reuters. It seems to ignore the basic foundation of communication and reduces it to a simplistic model of who stole whose story when it was never really their story to begin with.

I am not worried that this gap would be filled but perhaps curious as to what it would look like if mainstream news went south because everyone stopped paying attention to it. I think small independents would quickly pick up the slack, but I don't think the above scenario is really all that realistic.

Even if it was realistic how long before these independents grew and began resembling the legacy media they replaced.

A large portion of a lot of our lives is in the digital world. Having the right to control your software is a no brainer. I am reminded this every time I use my Windows 11 laptop and get interrupted by an ad for Microsoft or some other company whose software I have installed.

It really reminds of those early days on the web where your browser could be hijacked by pop-ups.

Also eerily similar to when Germany demanded all the countries take in the Jews and they all refused.

They are leaning extra hard on political correctness already. The very thing they railed against before. Everything is always a projection. It is why thieves are always so quick to point out how everyone else must be stealing.

Classic propaganda technique to claim you are defending and supporting the thing you are trying to subvert. Unfortunately we don't teach critical thinking skills until college so it is lost on most people.

This is perfect on the level of one on one human interactions.

When it comes to movements like fascism it just turns into kill them with kindness while they actually kill you.

First, intergenerational warfare is nothing new.

Here is a supposed quote from King Naram Sin of Chaldea, 3800 years B.C

"We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents."

Second, are you seriously defending the steaming pile of garbage legacy media is. Furthermore, are you also suggesting that without them we would have no way to learn about what is happening in the world.

Seriously though. At this point, I would rather hear hot takes from independence reporters than listen to the corporate approved line about everything.

The issue is not what is in the news, but who decides what is the news. This is really the crux of the issue and legacy media is definitely part of the problem.