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masquenox , to nottheonion in Palestinian workers stranded in West Bank fear for families in Gaza — but refuse to condemn Hamas

Why should they condemn Hamas? I don’t see Superman or Captain Planet doing anything about Israel’s little seventy-year war against Palestinians…

masquenox , to world in About 100,000 turn out in London for pro-Palestine rally

Lost any sympathy with Palestinians

In other words… your sympathies always lay with the white supremacist settler-colonialist project and not their victims.

masquenox , to world in About 100,000 turn out in London for pro-Palestine rally

The reason is because Israel decided to squander any good-will

There’s a very big difference between “good will” and “luxuriously-funded propaganda” - every measure Israel has taken against Palestinians in the last seventy years has been “massively disproportionate.”

masquenox , to world in About 100,000 turn out in London for pro-Palestine rally

I’d say we’re looking at a generalized propaganda failure here all across Europe and most of the world - ten years ago you were banned off any sizable English-language forum for calling Israel genocidal… that’s simply not the case any longer.

masquenox , to nostupidquestions in How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

radicalism politically is to be pushing for a change at the root of something

You mean that thing right-wing ideology exists to prevent? There is no such thing as a “right-wing radical” - right-wing ideology exists to protect the status quo and *destroy or co-opt that which advocates “change at the root…”*it has no reason to exist otherwise.

I think it is pretty fair to say OPs mom could fit this.

The paranoid racism displayed by OP’s mom isn’t “radical” - it’s bog-standard right-wing white supremacist colonialist paranoia.

You can again tell by the fact that nobody uninronically considers themselves a reactionary.

They also generally do not self-identify as fascists or white supremacists, and you can easily anger most right-wingers even by just calling them right-wingers - so your point is… what?

masquenox , to nostupidquestions in How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

I probably should… but I have to admit that I kinda enjoy reporting them.

Thanks - I’ll certainly look into it.

masquenox , to nostupidquestions in How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

You can’t “de-radicalize” your mom because your mom has never been “radicalized” in the first place - if she was, she’d be spray-painting ACAB on the walls and quoting Bakunin or Marx at everyone.

Your mom has been turned into a reactionary - pretty much the opposite of that which is radical. And since you have access to your mom’s youtube account, it’s radical content that is required to start levering open the cognitive dissonance that right-wing content attempts to paper over.

However, it can’t just be any radical content - it has to be radical content that specifically addresses things that are relevant to your mom. I’ll use my own mom as an example… she has always been angry about the fact that my (late) father essentially tossed away the family’s nest-egg in his obsessive attempts to become a successful business owner - I showed her some videos explaining how this neolib cult of business-ownership was popularized by the likes of Reagan and Thatcher (which she had no difficulty believing because my dad was a rabid right-winger who constantly brought these two fuckheads up in conversation during the 80s) which led to a lot of good conversations.

Obviously, your mom will not be as receptive to new information as mine is - so you may have to be a bit sneakier about it. But I don’t see too many other options for you at this point.

masquenox , to nostupidquestions in How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

I have to clear out my youtube recommendations about once a week… no matter how many times I take out or report all the right-wing garbage, you can bet everything that by the end of the week there will be a Jordan Peterson or PragerU video in there. How are people who aren’t savvy to the right-wing’s little “culture war” supposed to navigate this?

masquenox , to retrogaming in What are your favorite retro PC games?

Digger.

I found a Win version the other day… and it still kicks my ass - just like it did when I was thirteen.

masquenox , to world in New record set for world's hottest day - as scientist warns milestone is a 'death sentence'

Those bunkers are luxury tombs and little else.

masquenox , to world in New record set for world's hottest day - as scientist warns milestone is a 'death sentence'

There is no such thing as a semtex-proof bunker.

masquenox , to world in New record set for world's hottest day - as scientist warns milestone is a 'death sentence'

Too bad the security they will hire to keep their bunkers safe will quickly figure out that the money they are being paid isn’t worth anything any more… they will probably point us over to the air vents when we show up with the cement trucks.

masquenox , to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

I do, but fortunately my threat-level at the moment is low - for now. One of the (dubious) honours of living in the third-world is that targeting is still performed through decidedly analog means - but there’s no telling how long that will last. I’m not so much worried about the top brass of the goon squad having a file on me - I’m more worried about the psychopath ex-cop and his five drinking buddies living down the street.

And yes… their little plagiarithm’s ability to chew through mountains of data and present meaningful patterns out of it is pretty darn impressive. So much for the “But they can’t do anything with all that data!” argument.

masquenox , to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

I do have privacy concerns… I live in a country where being a dissident can very easily result in “corrective violence.” It’s just that I already make my opinion public against the wishes of the status quo - upvotes and downvotes is merely a part of that.

masquenox , to youshouldknow in YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private

I have no problem with admins seeing what I upvote or downvote. Hell, I have no problem with everybody seeing what I upvote or downvote.

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