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If I could convince you to spend two hours per day on certain Subreddits or other internet forums, I could probably make you a radical of any stripe I want. Knowing how this process works is the only way to avoid it.

Shoutout to…

  • Linda 
  • Anna S
  • Kim D
  • Ira
  • Colin Palin

…and others I couldn’t track down for tacking on their support at Patreon! We’re within spitting distance (90%!) of our $250/episode target to support our marketing efforts. If you can, we’d love your help, too!

Last episode:

-Immigration/gentrification

-Rioting and insurrection (Wisconsin, 10 years ago)

Chaz vs. Y’all Qaeda (https://www.huffpost.com/topic/yall-qaeda) / Bundy Militia

-Helping the poor vs. market forces.

We could also cover…

-Free speech

-International intervention and trade

-Believing in Science vs. anecdote?

How to casually radicalize

Here’s the big idea: if you look long enough at a stream of certain people (any tribe–political, national, religious, ethnic, eye color) doing/saying bad things, your brain will end up deciding that the whole group of them is probably bad, due to many cognitive biases which are endemic in humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Here’s the problem: no cause is so noble that fools will not follow it. There are jerks of every stripe. What if there were losers on the internet (or troll farmers working for Russia) with nothing better to do but find idiots/jerks of a certain stripe, curate that content, and post it? Well, sadly those people do exist, on Reddit and elsewhere. Want to know how your friend got radicalized in the last 10 years? This is how.

Let’s look at some subreddits:

Against the left

  • /r/socialjusticeinaction
  • /r/TumblrInAction/
  • r/KotakuInAction
  • /r/theleftcantmeme

Against the right

  • /r/parlerwatch
  • /r/leopardsatemyface
  • r/FuckTheAltRight
  • r/toiletpaperusa
  • /r/therightcantmeme

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