What makes them possibly think that a youtuber with average 10M views per video and 15M subs need to take money from Hamas. They could’ve just ignore her, but they radicalized her instead, and probably another billion toddlers who watches her daily
isn’t-real takes another L
I was making a bit of a joke “are you saying Republicans are fascist” to which one could go “well, clearly, duh, thanks for the piercing insight WDYMP”
I guess a salient question might be “what are they getting from believing in something so counter to reality that they couldn’t get imagining a better world is possible?” Is it the giga distain for minorities? Do they lack education that liberates? Is it some kind of distinction from one’s peers? Or is there some secret sauce?
I think they get some weird perverted sense of community that’s otherwise lacking in our culture.
Yeah, I think this is it. It’s the same reason people fall in with obviously harmful cults, or hang out with quote unquote “bad crowds.” It gives a sense of community that they otherwise lacked.
I’ve never heard of a person who is socially well adjusted and has a strong support network of caring individuals falling into fascist beliefs, it’s always someone at a low point in their life, someone who is desperate for a connection to others that they feel like they lack. Then fascists come along and tell them that (insert scapegoat here) is the reason they don’t have that, and they’ll happily believe it if it means they get a sense of community.