Right-wing Extremism: Online Radicalism, Radicalization

[Christian Confederation]

They have destroyed the holy bond of marriage, they tanked our economy and act like nothing is wrong, they're grooming and mutilating our children, they destroyed basic gender roles, destroyed our culture, aborted our children, and to top it all off they have demoralized our men.

... Hold on- let me put on my glasses.
*squints*

- "I don't like Polygamous people!"
- Okay true
- "I don't like that trans people are actually getting rights and aren't just being beaten to death!"
- "I don't like that women have rights!"
- "I don't like that I have to see more brown people!"
- Okay true
- "I HATE femboys!"

Accurate. We shouldn't enforce the delusions of the mentally ill. No I just hate modern Feminism. That's just racist and irrelevant to anything I said. Accurate.

[Optopias]

I think that the biggest problem with the left is that they believe equal opportunities should mean equal outcomes. This does not take into account individual, group, and cultural differences. They use policy to enforce an overly simplistic way of looking at the world and it results in what is essentially racist practices. It’s like saying that men and women are interchangeable. That’s simply not true. There are even cognitive differences. Not all inequality is due to systemic racism or the patriarchy.

[New Visayan Islands]

... Hold on- let me put on my glasses.
*squints*

- "I don't like Polygamous people!"
- Okay true
- "I don't like that trans people are actually getting rights and aren't just being beaten to death!"
- "I don't like that women have rights!"
- "I don't like that I have to see more brown people!"
- Okay true
- "I HATE femboys!"

Accurate. We shouldn't enforce the delusions of the mentally ill. No I just hate modern Feminism. That's just racist and irrelevant to anything I said. Accurate.

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[Nilokeras]

It's a rather simple process, really: in the latter parts of the 20th century popular leftist movements were either coopted into capitalism or crushed, closing off an entire wing of political analysis which correctly diagnoses the problems society faces. At the same time, the hegemony of the centre and right was completed and they successfully stripped out the material gains won by those leftist popular movements earlier in the century. Quality of life declined, deindustrialization sprung up, unions were cut out of peoples' lives and the dissonance between the rhetoric out of the centre/right coalition in charge across the West and peoples' lived experience grew ever larger.

In the absence of left messaging, the only political current that acknowledged anything was wrong and that peoples' lives were getting worse, not better, was the far right. Their analysis of exactly what was wrong and how to fix it is hopelessly wrong, of course, but that hardly matters. It's also a useful phenomena for the powers that be: since rightist analyses are hopelessly wrong and fail to direct their adherents at the real foundation stones of the neoliberal order, they are a tolerable enough diversion that takes energy that could have gone towards, say, unionization drives and divert it towards 'campus kangaroo courts' or doxxing trans Twitch streamers.

It's all very sad and avoidable, really.

Further proof that the wrong side won the Cold War.

Nobody 'won' the Cold War. Just two different factions of bourgeois class dictatorship reconciling.

[Sordhau]

Further proof that the wrong side won the Cold War.

Nobody 'won' the Cold War. Just two different factions of bourgeois class dictatorship reconciling.

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

[Nilokeras]

Nobody 'won' the Cold War. Just two different factions of bourgeois class dictatorship reconciling.

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

Nah, just the inescapable conclusion of watching the leadership class of the USSR seamlessly transition into the kleptocracies of post-Soviet Eastern Europe.

[The New Rio Grande]

Nobody 'won' the Cold War. Just two different factions of bourgeois class dictatorship reconciling.

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

What’s the difference? You’re all a bunch of commies. I’ll spit in all of your faces.

[Nilokeras]

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

What’s the difference? You’re all a bunch of commies. I’ll spit in all of your faces.

Kinky.

[Necroghastia]

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

What’s the difference? You’re all a bunch of commies. I’ll spit in all of your faces.

OwO

[Sordhau]

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

Nah, just the inescapable conclusion of watching the leadership class of the USSR seamlessly transition into the kleptocracies of post-Soviet Eastern Europe.

What revisionism does to a union of soviets smh.

[Socialist Ancomistan]

Ohkayy. So there is this YouTube channel that I am hooked onto called Whatifalthist, who basically talks about predicting the geopolitical future of our world through books he has read as well as what the world has already gone through. I don’t take very much of what he says to gospel, but there is still something calming about his voice and the maps he uses that keeps me addicted to the content. My favorite videos are about his outlook on future world superpowers and countries that should/shouldn’t have been rich.

Link to his channel here (recommended): https://youtube.com/user/WhatifAltHist

The problem is that a tiny part of me is like “no, I don’t trust this guy, what if this is an early step to becoming radicalized to the right.” Of course, Whatifalthist is no Monsieur-Z, but I still feel like a small fraction of what he says could be easily taken out of context by far right groups of people. You should look at any of his “Taboo questions about History and Society” if you want an idea of why I am posting this here. Again, I don’t believe this guy is an extremist, but still need an outside opinion from anyone else on here who has seen Whatifalthist’s content. Hopefully I’m not alone in this rabbit hole.

[Alcala-Cordel]

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

What’s the difference? You’re all a bunch of commies. I’ll spit in all of your faces.

There are some very big differences between different people who call themselves communists, actually.

[Raxulan Empire]

In regards to online discourse and radicalization: how many of you fallen down the alt right pipeline?

• How have you gotten out of it?
• Have you know anyone that has gone further?
• Is there an end?

If I know correctly the alt right is more authoritarian, so I don't think I've ever been apart of it nor have any interest in it. I used to be a Conservative, but my desire for liberty and thirst for knowledge guided by facts, logic, and reason has led me deeper and deeper into the Libertarian Right, such to the point that I've become something of an Anarcho Capitalist.

[Alcala-Cordel]

I'm not sure what the worst place to learn about politics is, but YouTube is up there.

YouTube is what you make of it. There are moderate conservatives on the platform. I can think for myself so I don’t mind if some of it is just fear mongering or rhetoric.

Youtube's algorithm loves to promote far-right propaganda even when it's entirely unrelated, and the youtubers themselves largely spew nonsense. It's a terrible place to do anything if you want an accurate portrayal of reality.

[Nilokeras]

Ohkayy. So there is this YouTube channel that I am hooked onto called Whatifalthist, who basically talks about predicting the geopolitical future of our world through books he has read as well as what the world has already gone through. I don’t take very much of what he says to gospel, but there is still something calming about his voice and the maps he uses that keeps me addicted to the content. My favorite videos are about his outlook on future world superpowers and countries that should/shouldn’t have been rich.

Link to his channel here (recommended): https://youtube.com/user/WhatifAltHist

Woah a clash of civilizations rightist with Paradox map painter game brain rot

talk about a unique insight

[United Calanworie]

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

What’s the difference? You’re all a bunch of commies. I’ll spit in all of your faces.

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[Neanderthaland]

YouTube is what you make of it. There are moderate conservatives on the platform. I can think for myself so I don’t mind if some of it is just fear mongering or rhetoric.

Youtube's algorithm loves to promote far-right propaganda even when it's entirely unrelated, and the youtubers themselves largely spew nonsense. It's a terrible place to do anything if you want an accurate portrayal of reality.

Especially their new short-video platform. The one that's made to emulate tictok. Loves right-wing content for some reason.

[Sordhau]

I used to be a Conservative, but my desire for liberty and thirst for knowledge guided by facts, logic, and reason has led me deeper and deeper into the Libertarian Right, such to the point that I've become something of an Anarcho Capitalist.

There's enough irony in this statement to sink a continent.

[Kalivyah]

I used to be a Conservative, but my desire for liberty and thirst for knowledge guided by facts, logic, and reason has led me deeper and deeper into the Libertarian Right, such to the point that I've become something of an Anarcho Capitalist.

There's enough irony in this statement to sink a continent.

There's not really any irony in that statement.

[Sordhau]

There's enough irony in this statement to sink a continent.

There's not really any irony in that statement.

No it's fairly ironic for someone to say they value liberty and logic while simultaneously admitting to be an AnCap - an ideology known for the exact opposite.

[Suriyanakhon]

destroyed our culture

How?

[Suriyanakhon]

Nobody 'won' the Cold War. Just two different factions of bourgeois class dictatorship reconciling.

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

I mean, like every non-armchair Communist I've met in the US has almost exclusively been Trotskyist. They tend to be alright, outside of their propensity to destroying the ecosystem through mass newspaper production.

[Kalivyah]

There's not really any irony in that statement.

No it's fairly ironic for someone to say they value liberty and logic while simultaneously admitting to be an AnCap - an ideology known for the exact opposite.

Well by definition of "liberty" you mean the liberty to do whatever you want (including exploit others for your own gain or purely out of sadistic fun) then technically AnCap does profess this.

[Duvniask]

Nobody 'won' the Cold War. Just two different factions of bourgeois class dictatorship reconciling.

I forgot you were a Trotskyist. Cringe.

Trotsky never held that the Soviet Union was a bourgeois class dictatorship. His notion of it being a "degenerated workers state" explicitly denied this.

[Rusticus I Damianus]

No it's fairly ironic for someone to say they value liberty and logic while simultaneously admitting to be an AnCap - an ideology known for the exact opposite.

Well by definition of "liberty" you mean the liberty to do whatever you want (including exploit others for your own gain or purely out of sadistic fun) then technically AnCap does profess this.

Ancap does not profess this, nor does anyone that supports it.