been seein rumblings about this controversy for a min

bro I f***ing hate these people. immediately google shows me an article called The Myth of the Myth of Barter posted on a libertarian think tank website and less than a scroll in theres one called The Myth of the Myth of the Myth of Barter and the first comment in there is 600 words long like I hate EVERYBODY involved in this s***

Jared has always been a massive weirdo, not surprised by any of this

Have talked to him a few times

Dude used to post a bunch of Heavens Gate s*** on his fb

Surprised the thing about him pistol whipping a dude over some loaned books didn’t end up on here lol unless I missed it

yeah i wanted to ask you about this stuff, but I didn't want to be taken the wrong way

I wonder why the international is backing him still according to the people running this site

Like who? I don’t really know any international orgs that are from what I can tell but maybe I’m wrong

allegedly ICL aka CI-IC

Weird that surprises me based on the part about their trip to Brazil and Mexico. Must’ve missed that

!dream ultra realistic 4K photograph of donald trump recreating the famous historical picture of malcolm x holding a rifle while looking out a window

this looks hard asf tho

Everything I learn about Brazil makes it seem like America but 10x worse somehow

portuguese such a beautiful language though

The facetune is straight up some uncanny valley s***

ill post it here before discord just to make sure we don't immediately dismiss this as 'YouTuber content which is all trash' (I dont disagree). long s*** alert

(start at 3:34 to get into what im about to discuss)

idk who watches FD Signifier (we discussed him itt earlier) but I want to bring yalls attention to an argument that he puts forth in this video. tldr he claims that radicalization of men (sic!) and their attraction to misogynistic content happens because people getting attracted to it are already in some way hateful and express these tendencies prior to engaging with said content, even if they don't outright display these behaviors* so my question is:

isnt it an absolutely non-materialistic argument that should be criticized as soon as it goes out the mouth of a left-wing commentator? how much credence can we give someone who wants to bring up a study possibly developed without focus on the material basis of this phenomenon and use it as a distraction from the fact that all algorithms absolutely prioritize polemical and emotionally charged content simply for its brevity and ability to feed into previously established patterns of consumption (so-called 'dick carped burned on content')? do you think there are factors at play that I might not know but which can reinforce FD's argument? am I confusing something here without obvious explanation of 'he implies that material stuff is important but wants to talk about something else'?

idk if you got time to watch a 20-minute video just to respond to me so in case you dont I guess you could simply respond to what im describing above. I can clarify where necessary and once again want to escape 'middle-ground arguments' and see if there's a more definitive response to that particular claim (it states: origins of radicalization are preset in people because they either were preconditioned (possibly on material basis) or, to wit, 'thats who they are to begin with')

*as I was rewatching the video I figured that his argument might be that because of material conditions (patriarchy, class, and algorithms) people can become predisposed, however, their radicalization does not start at the moment they engage with endless providers of content. and that is what FD confidently puts forth in the key part of the video. this part is my possible interpretation as I only rewatched a part of this video

@krishna_bound wanna know what you in particular think on that bc well your reputation precedes you. but I want as many ppl as possible to chime in

two more notes:

1) that part about studies elevating blame off of Facebook for radicalizing people straight up sound like damage control by fb at best and some fed s*** at worst

2) FD's appearance on a podcast with a bunch of so-called marxists was wasted bc they didnt even try to ask him about marxism and his familiarity with it. its random but something that I wanted to mention too this is just me venting at this point lol

theres def a lot here and i want to respond to it in full so leaving a bookmark post so i can respond in full when i have a little bit more time to write up my thoughts on it

my man

Belarus is socialist