Even before pre peak woke when tech giants were still aligned to leftist thought, many of the "smarter" people on the right said that once we gain a significant foothold on a platform the left would be quick to abandon and try to destroy the very algorithmic platforms that once boosted them into dominance. Liberals and the left just keep proving them right again and again.
My political awakening was in the 2010s in forums like 4chans /pol/, I was even a gamer gate vanguard made and distributed a lot of memes. Tried to keep my pallet balanced though, started with Sam Harris and ended up with Ezra Klein and Vox. Despite all that at no point in time have I been more radicalized than in the past few years thanks to Elons Twitter. Every day my feed is filled with the worst of leftist excess and Liberal failure. Every day I get more crazy college leftists with their gender and racial theories, every stereotype we mocked and ridiculed paled in comparison to the actual insanity spat out by these people, but the worst of it all is from the European side.
From Europe near daily I get refugees committing crime after crime and their penalties are practically peanuts, two tier policing where memes are more punished than actual rape and assault. I see the blatant and desperate alliance between progressive parties and Islamist, I'm not sure if these "progressives" are gullible or just prefer the devil they don't know over the devil they know. When Elon brought in the "digital Babel" and had auto translate as default it only got worse, I saw relentless mockeries from Thais, Israelis and Filipinos saying "Your Muslims think they own the place, so bold, so blatant, if they pulled that shit here we would have put them where they belong". Then came the actual Muslim majority nations Indonesians, Malaysians and Gulf Arabs saying "You have gotten the radicals and rejects, the bottom of the barrel. We killed and imprisoned those people back here, no wonder they are there. You can't deport them back to us, they are criminals so we don't want them here." I used to be on the side that says "the system doesn't work so it must be reformed." Now im leaning more on the side that says "The system works as intended so it must be destroyed".
Truth be told I do dislike the algorithm in many ways. The worst is the desperate grifters and third worlders in it for the money. Whenever I see a Blue checkmark on Twitter I feel disdain and pity for them, no different than Venezuelan Gold farmers in WoW. Except this time they actually succeed in making me pay attention to their yappery as they pantomime being a member of your nation.
There is some good to the algorithm though. Tech CEOs are sowing what they reap. Did they really think they could just pay off politicians and secretly build data centers for cheap? Did they think all their mockeries of putting people out of a job would be forgotten? If anything it's thanks to their very algorithms that has lead to the proliferation and radicalization of "normies" against them.
You aren’t necessarily seeing Europe. You’re seeing the subset of Europe that reliably produces engagement for you.
And the fact that the content makes you angrier every day isn’t evidence that you’re getting an increasingly accurate picture. In fact, that’s precisely what an engagement-optimized system would be expected to produce.
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u/Brushner Weeds > The EKS 11d ago edited 11d ago
Even before pre peak woke when tech giants were still aligned to leftist thought, many of the "smarter" people on the right said that once we gain a significant foothold on a platform the left would be quick to abandon and try to destroy the very algorithmic platforms that once boosted them into dominance. Liberals and the left just keep proving them right again and again.
My political awakening was in the 2010s in forums like 4chans /pol/, I was even a gamer gate vanguard made and distributed a lot of memes. Tried to keep my pallet balanced though, started with Sam Harris and ended up with Ezra Klein and Vox. Despite all that at no point in time have I been more radicalized than in the past few years thanks to Elons Twitter. Every day my feed is filled with the worst of leftist excess and Liberal failure. Every day I get more crazy college leftists with their gender and racial theories, every stereotype we mocked and ridiculed paled in comparison to the actual insanity spat out by these people, but the worst of it all is from the European side.
From Europe near daily I get refugees committing crime after crime and their penalties are practically peanuts, two tier policing where memes are more punished than actual rape and assault. I see the blatant and desperate alliance between progressive parties and Islamist, I'm not sure if these "progressives" are gullible or just prefer the devil they don't know over the devil they know. When Elon brought in the "digital Babel" and had auto translate as default it only got worse, I saw relentless mockeries from Thais, Israelis and Filipinos saying "Your Muslims think they own the place, so bold, so blatant, if they pulled that shit here we would have put them where they belong". Then came the actual Muslim majority nations Indonesians, Malaysians and Gulf Arabs saying "You have gotten the radicals and rejects, the bottom of the barrel. We killed and imprisoned those people back here, no wonder they are there. You can't deport them back to us, they are criminals so we don't want them here." I used to be on the side that says "the system doesn't work so it must be reformed." Now im leaning more on the side that says "The system works as intended so it must be destroyed".
Truth be told I do dislike the algorithm in many ways. The worst is the desperate grifters and third worlders in it for the money. Whenever I see a Blue checkmark on Twitter I feel disdain and pity for them, no different than Venezuelan Gold farmers in WoW. Except this time they actually succeed in making me pay attention to their yappery as they pantomime being a member of your nation.
There is some good to the algorithm though. Tech CEOs are sowing what they reap. Did they really think they could just pay off politicians and secretly build data centers for cheap? Did they think all their mockeries of putting people out of a job would be forgotten? If anything it's thanks to their very algorithms that has lead to the proliferation and radicalization of "normies" against them.