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Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a woman, I can never understand how other women can be Republican.

My mom was a Dem growing up, but then she fell down the religious rabbit hole after I left home and it was all downhill from there.

My little sister though? I have zero idea how she ended up Republican. It's fucking bizarre. 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“The Leopards won’t eat my face”

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its the "Leopards eating people's faces party"; not the " Leopards eating my face party". GOSH!

PS - is that a community here yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree with and get the point of the metaphor. But the leopard metaphor always seemed a bit tortured to me. There’s got to be a cleaner way to communicate that point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You'd think so; and yet, so many people that metaphor is directed at don't even realize...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In our case, we both grew up in a conservative state with conservative parents. But over time, I drifted away from it (and it drifted in crazy land). However she still hangs on. She's come around on a few things. She often falls into the false equivalence mindset that both sides are just as bad. And whenever she starts to bring up any anti-vax or Joe Rogan BS, I try to stomp on that real quick. But I know she will always vote for anyone with an R by their name when it comes down to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My thoughts. It never starts as full blown conservatism but reaches that point by a branching topic. My brother was always financially conservative, boot straps and all that, but over the last 12-18 months as the media he consumes moves further right he has become more socially conservative, because these people were inline with his thinking before so they must be right now of course.

I caught him going on about trans people corrupting his kids a couple of weeks ago. My brother might be a dick but he wouldn't have been saying that 5-10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Some like to hate on others, so maybe that's why.