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Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

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[–] Cyder@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Maybe you have the same problem I have: my wife is still a republican. When that kind of stuff shows up, I know she has been watching it on the family PC. She's not that tech savvy, so I usually go in later and block or limit some of it. It's a pain to fight the algorithms.

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

As a woman, I can never understand how other women can be Republican.

My mom was a Dem growing up, but then she fell down the religious rabbit hole after I left home and it was all downhill from there.

My little sister though? I have zero idea how she ended up Republican. It's fucking bizarre. 🤷‍♀️

[–] Phillaholic@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“The Leopards won’t eat my face”

[–] ChillPill@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its the "Leopards eating people's faces party"; not the " Leopards eating my face party". GOSH!

PS - is that a community here yet?

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree with and get the point of the metaphor. But the leopard metaphor always seemed a bit tortured to me. There’s got to be a cleaner way to communicate that point.

[–] ChillPill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You'd think so; and yet, so many people that metaphor is directed at don't even realize...

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