gfrank.bsky.social

I cancelled my Disney+ subscription. I gave this for my reason:
"The decision to bend the knee multiple times to an authoritarian demand, sacrificing all of our 1st amendment rights instead of standing by the American people and the Constitution, means I will no longer support ABC or its brands."

He wasn't even a good professional wrestler. The only meaningful championship he ever won was the now-meaningless NWA World Title and he could barely move during one of his defenses

While it's true, saying "lol u deserve it so now admit my smug ass is right" isn't very convincing. And that guy has just as much of a vote as you or me. We have to be in the business of persuasion not shun because the right will swoop in and convince them of their side.

YouTube video by Ryan White why is there no alt-left pipeline?

Highly recommend following this YouTuber @ydubs.bsky.social who made a really excellent video on why there’s no alt-left pipeline youtu.be/y8wD2d9uKg4?...

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By coded I mean not political outright but will use right wing language or have right wing guests or assume right wing framing of things is reality ("cancel culture" for example). You can start watching movie reviews and before you know it you're watching a bunch of crazy right wingers ranting

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I would also add that Gamergate was a huge moment in Internet History. The right decided to welcome these boys with open arms and allow them to be their gross selves. Now more and more niches began coding right instead of left. Things like health, beauty, fitness, finance, are all right coded

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There's no left wing pipeline because the left has never needed to create one, and I'm glad Ryan White pointed that out. But I felt like a couple other nuanced points were left out of his video and wanted to comment because, well, I wanted to share it, even if it's to the void.

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This is why the Democrats are so passive with their media strategy: they expect to give a press conference or quote and the media reports it and Americans will read it. What they don't get is what the Right had to do when they started their ecosystem: figure out how to attract an audience

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The problem with the left is that this has never been the way lefties get their info; it's always been a mix of MSM sources. So the left and Democrat party never felt the need to do this, so long as a majority of the public was living in reality, getting news from common sources

So when Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter began to take off, and their algorithms were about keeping people on their platform; all aspiring conservative influencers had to do was copy the Rush, Bill O'Reilly, etc. method and these social media algorithms would promote their stuff

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Ryan's premise that right wing media creates and relies on fear and distrust are spot on, but I don't know if that's inherently a core right wing value; I think it's become that because of the media ecosystem. What I do see is the right wing approach is perfect for social media algorithms

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Trust MSM, academia, or the government. This attack for 40 years created isolation and loyalty among their viewers while at the same time sowed higher distrust among these institutions to now it's the default setting not to trust any of the 3 (the "do your own research" mentality)

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Very good video. He's been having the same thoughts I've had re: right wing influence. I think there's a few points I would add: one reason right wing media started because they wanted their own story that mainstream media wasn't telling. Fox, Rush, et al targeted viewers telling them don't