No, they’re making a conscious choice to use the platform. The content itself is whatever pops up and looks entertaining.

you still need to physically and mentally engage with it in some fashion, otherwise it’s literally not being consumed at all, the only possible exception to this is being asleep, which isn’t particularly well understood.

If the algorthim shows you 2 center-right videos, 3 hard-right videos, and one nazi rant then are you choosing to be a nazi by watching the center right ones?

if you watch the center right videos, you are choosing to consume the center right leaning content, given that you are a content consumer equipped with the standard human feature of a functioning brain and sense. It would only be logical that if you were to see the nazi content in the corner and go “OOH NAZI CONTENT!” you’re probably leaning nazi already, and if you see it and go “oh good, nazi content” you’re probably not.

Even if you are slowly subsumed by the nazi content and slowly become a nazi over the course of 4 years, it doesn’t matter, you still made the choice, even as slowly as you did, to become a nazi, this is why the ability to recognize where you are, whether or not you’ve grown as a person, and what you should do about it is a good thing to be engaging with from time to time, otherwise you risk becoming a serial killer, or other various bad things.

Its never actually 3 hours of nazi things. Its an otherwise entertaining video making some off color jokes. It’s a streamer going on one politically dubious rant in a 6 hour stream. It’s a weekly podcast talking to “interesting” people; some benign, some funny, some actual problems… It’s about normalizing the conversation and the ideas. Nobody is getting handed a knife.

you should be conscious and aware of these things, these things are the reason that people get killed, you cannot simply ignore it and pretend they don’t exist, you must be aware of them, and try to be as conscious of them as you physically and mentally can. If you are not able to be conscious of these things, you are simply not fit to consume content, because clearly, you are just willing to assume the position of whoever is yapping currently, and therefore, offer no functional utility to the rest of humanity.

Yeah, there are some people take the red pill and actively go down the conspiracy rabbit hole and watch nazi shit. But I’m not gonna go out of my way to crucify people who have shitty ideas in their head at some point, there are lots of people that have stories of escaping the funnel.

that’s entirely understandable, my problem is that people simply aren’t aware of it, and yet, still consume the exact same type of problematic, or potentially problematic content, without being aware of what they could be experiencing and then they go “oh boy i sure am glad im not being indoctrinated to be a nazi!” as they’re being indoctrinated to some other bullshit actively because they subvert their own concerns. This is a fundamental problem with political media, you simply cannot uncritically consume it, it’s not tenable. In the same way that as a lawyer, you can’t just clap your hands and go “yeah boss i got this one ez pz, done twenty of these before today.” and expect everything to go well. You simply NEED to do your due diligence. You cannot afford the lack of due diligence, it’s potential destruction is simply too great.

Because at the end of the day a vote is just voicing an opinion to most people.

and that’s the problem, a vote is not “voicing an opinion” it’s giving your piece on who you think should be running the country, and how. But people do not understand the consequences of their own actions because they simply aren’t conscious of what they consume, and why. And this is why we’re where we are now, with republicans that think the democrats literally tried to steal an election, even though zero proof has been presented.

People don’t understand the gravity of politics, and they don’t understand the importance of their action, both of these in combination has lead to the “marketization” of politics into a form of content not dissimilar from reality TV, the simplest solution here is for you to be conscious about the content you’re consuming, it’s pitfalls, potential pitfalls, and the other content in existence around it, unfortunately most people consume this content with about 1 active braincell, obviously, not meeting these requirements.

“I was told tariffs aren’t a bad idea”… “Musk has points that there might be wasteful spending”… “Well Rogan endorsed him haha”…

and the problem is that these statements go from “well, there is some truth in these statements, as there is in an any statement, however these paint an entirely misleading and inaccurate picture” to “well duhh the government is inefficient, obviously we need to cull the entire fucking thing!” That’s the difference between what i have a problem with, and what you’re proposing. You are quite literally given every opportunity in the world to be conscious at ANY point in the content consumption pipeline, and yet people CHOOSE not to be. WHY?

If they were told they’re getting drafted to invade Greenland before they voted, they look at you the same way as the knife guy.

i’m sure they would, and i believe this to be the case, however they don’t even get past the “read the words written on the paper” stage of comprehending a written work, before they completely ingest it and homogenize it into their viewpoint and worldview, they are quite literally sticking an IV of poison straight into their bloodstream, by choice.

the question i ask, is why? What’s the reason?

or like, you could educate people, because for as long as these failings exist, they will be exploited, and the best preventative measure, is one that cannot be subverted.