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It is interesting that this is your experience, but I can say that this is objectively not true. Especially if you're on social media and not logged in, the content has a far right bias, there's often at least one recommended video which goes in that direction. About twitter was one study that twitter systematically preferred right-wing content… before Elon bought it. And I mean, everyone knows about Facebook.
The fascist Bolsonaro (he literally said the dictatorship was Brazil's best time and that its only mistake was to not torture enough; you gotta agree he's a literal fascist) movement just won the presidential elections because of Facebook and social media. It is a massive system driving people especially to a far-right extreme.
What I can say about "Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that." is well… I mean, yeah, if you disagree with both, both probably won't like that haha. But there is one problem to disagree with both sides if one side of them is e.g. literally trying to eradicate trans people, trying to deny them their existence, discriminate, etc., and also literally trying to undermine democracy and overthrow elections and is actively restricting who is able to vote, and the other one… isn't.
I can understand if someone financially benefits from Republicans, or is business-friendly or such, but criticising both as in that both are the same amount of bad is just wrong and harmful, because we just got to the point where only one side got completely off all norms and in an antidemocratic and borderline genocidal.
(And for the record: I'm not a US-American. I am certainly not a fan of the US Democratic party. And I do think that of course it's good to criticise everyone who does bad stuff, and to point that out.)
I don't support Republicans going against trans people or messing with abortion, to be honest I think they should keep their nose out of our personal choices and leave us be.
But I don't like the left either.
It's not "left vs. right" - that's just how it's framed to us. The U.S government is fucked up on all levels and both sides have done heinous things and kept us divided throughout history.
I truly believe that's all the two party system is, division. Ever listened to "Binaural beats"? Where they play for example a lower frequency in one ear, but a higher frequency in the other. I don't remember the exact method so pardon if I'm Rusty but basically the end result is we hear and are tuned to the frequency in between the two, low and high, sounds.
To me that's what the two party system reminds me of. One party outrages and destroys certain liberties or whatever. The other party fights back and the result is whatever they want it to be.
I just want to do away with all of it. Remove every part of the government that isn't directly benefitting our quality of life and start over.
If you view reddit in incognito or on a VPN, the front page absolutely, 100 percent has the most hard far left slant possible. Half the front page posts are from whitepeopletwitter which has the collective personality of a meth-ed up AOC crossed with Stalin
Well, I was generally talking about social media, and for Youtube, Facebook, Twitter it was all the other side. To be fair, I do not know about Reddit (haven't read any studies about it and are personally not enough in that sphere), so I could imagine it to be the outlier. Besides that, this comment does not respond to any of my arguments or talking points.