it is somewhere in-between very-smart

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    Really ramping up in the early 2010s there was a deliberate program of Nazi propaganda pushed through the algorithmic curation systems of every single corpo platform our generation gave their social lives over to in the early 00s, the kids just followed us. If you told your friends to get on Facebook, and aren’t a Nazi, youre just a Judas goat.

    Luckily, I was and am too insufferable to have friends, and am thus blameless.

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      I’ll never forget the time in about 2014 or 2015 when I searched for “proto indo european” on youtube because I like learning about language shifts. I watched one video about phonology, then YouTube recommended one about early migration patterns, then they recommended a video called “who were the proto indo europeans” and I was like oh neat, I never really thought about their culture or technology or whatever, let’s watch that.

      I’m kinda spacing out doing something else, and I hear the video say “so basically, the proto indo europeans were ethnically German” I was like ohhhhhh what the fuck?? That sounds not correct at all… wait didn’t… didn’t the Germans have some weird concept of “Aryans” to the east or something? What the fuck am I listening to?

      I look down and the channel name is “SurviveTheJive”… uhhh… the WHAT? Survive the WHAT?

      It was a Nazi. It took literally two YouTube recommendations to bring me to a channel run by a swastika-wearing Nazi.

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        10 hours ago

        And every big platform is like this. On purpose. We handed our social lives and so much of our culture over to them, and they used that monopoly to push Nazism. Every corpo in silicon valley may as well have a sonnenrad on its face.

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        I’ll never forgive the Dungeons and Diversity YouTube channel for the shitty bait and switch channel name when trying to introduce new people to the hobby. They can fuck right off forever.