Yall are in the best position to deradicalize them. And while it wasn’t good you got sulked in, they were actively targeting people like you to suck you in
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Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Hate, insecurity, intolerance, and ignorance are the foundation of their ideology. I’m not proud of myself at all for this, but I got sucked into the pipeline when I was a young teen. However I am proud to say that I did fortunately manage to pull myself out of it and I’m now a socialist.
While I hate that I got sucked in, it does give me a lot of insight into why they are the way they are. They start by targeting common insecurities which they use to lure people in, and then they feed them lies while appealing to those insecurities. For example, I remember being a lonely teen and watching mgtow 🤮 videos and the gist of the videos was that if you joined their “movement” that you would get laid all the time, and of course that video was ridden with a shitload of misogyny and lies. Then from there it snowballs into more and more hatred and lies.
Conservatives are just sad, narcissistic losers who are incapable of understanding that people need to lift each other up rather than putting each other down. That’s why conservatives like to brag, because they think putting others down is how they get lifted up.
Being knowledgeable is a good defence against their tactics since their lies become obvious and it quickly becomes evident that they are fools.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glent@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The secret sauce at fox news is flattering dumb people, telling them they are smart. Smarter than those woke professors, doctors, scientists. “Youre a free thinker, you see right through the deep state lies, you know the real deal and dont fall for their propaganda…etc.” If you cqn flatter a moron into thinking they are smart, you can literally program them like a manchurian candidate or robot.