The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a NormieComments
abralelie OP wrote
Unfortunately, the climate created by the US media has been very successful at dividing the population and making it controllable this way. It reaches outside of the US borders too.
This isn't only a problem on the right either. The left employs the same techniques: making fun of the right, trying to offend "the other side", acting offended and shocked once attacked, retreating to echo chambers, invading spaces that have nothing to do with politics, "you're either with us or you're against us".
Both sides think they're right and refuse to find middle ground. It's happening in so many groups "us vs. them". There are no winners and nobody's completely correct or wrong.
boobs wrote
why does anyone even watch the mainstream corporate news anymore? the never had any credibility in the first place.
abralelie OP wrote
Find a good source isn't easy, unfortunately. People believe in Breitbart and other tabloids just because they "aren't mainstream" which isn't a good criteria either.
We need better education to spot fake news and be healthily critical.
boobs wrote
just remember, all of that recruiting can be mitigated by being a decent fucking human being and not shoving people away with purity testing. wow imagine that.