Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Why are Gen Z Europeans Voting for the Far Right?" video.

  1. Yep, the biggest and most damaging lie of the far right movement is claiming to be anti-establishment when most of them are extremely pro establishment, generally neo liberal, and very much for the protection of the status quo, a widening of the income gap, and reinforcing all sorts of prejudices and cultural divisions. But behind the anti-establishment and what commenters are talking about immigration, the biggest thing in my opinion is at the end of the video - it's about where they are present. It's all about social media. Far right movements are successfully exploiting the worst problem that social media generates, which is to empower a discourse of hatred and false information specifically shaped to create FUD, paranoia, and general hatred based on prejudice and nationalism. This also explain the gender division, if you look at what sort of content people consume. To be clear, it's not that women in younger generations don't also excessively consume social media content - it's about what they tend to consume, vs young men. Or rather, what the algorithms will show them. Politics get shoved way more in your face by algorithms if you are a young man rather than woman. Violent rhetoric too. You can see this not only analyzing the platforms in question and how their algorithms shape the recommendations, but also how far right parties engineer their propaganda to target what young men are looking for. It is no coincidence that far right parties will often use language and graphics that looks right out of some shooter game such as CoD, Battlefield, or some other war game. And it should also be noted that this is exactly the tactics that terrorist group recruitment have used in the past and still use. The violent rhetoric, using some empowerment and entitlement language, painting others are villains, criminals or evil, creating some religious-like or directly religious extremist justification for actions, blame shifting, painting immigrants as the cause of all problems, oversimplifying subjects as they see fit - none of it is coincidence, it's all strategy. The often undisguised admiration some of these parties have with brutal dictators, cult of personality stuff, savior, martyr or messiah complex, and then pretending to be anti-establishment by labeling the establishment as corrupt and wrong, oversimplifying it as evil and cause of all problems, and all of this crap everyone probably heard at this point already, this is all part of history, present, and probably future. It has happened before and it's happening again. It's because of how distant we are on historical events that led us to war that young men don't know better anymore, even though there is a case of that happening right there closeby. I just wish more people read about the history of tyrannical dictatorships in the past, without the embellishment and distortions of Hollywood movies and series plus games, so that they better understood that we're just repeating history in some form. The propaganda and discourses of fascist movements of the past, how countries adopted abhorrent positions to justify aggression towards others, what are the mechanisms used in terms of politics, ideology, religion and human psychology. I don't want to think we're gonna have to learn the hard way once again, but it looks like we're rushing towards that.
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