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This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

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[โ€“] USSEthernet@startrek.website 36 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I blame social media and algorithms. My teen son for the longest time was leaning further and further right due to the content he was getting served on YouTube. He was making disparaging comments about women and how stupid they are. My wife and I who lean left had to sit down and have a talk with him about what he was saying and videos that he was getting served by YouTube (that popular red pill girl, I can't remember her name and andrew tate among other red pill stuff). He's a pretty smart kid, once we showed him data and articles that directly proved all the things he was watching wrong, he started to come around. He's been careful to believe things that he sees or hears on the internet more now. Occasionally, he'll bring things to us that we have to double take and fact check to see if it's wrong.

[โ€“] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Exactly why we nixed youtube at my house. It's a right wing disinformation machine. A shame because there are some genuinely good content creators on that platform. My kids are younger, but their attitudes get out of whack when they watched YT. Fuck that platform.

[โ€“] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

that popular red pill girl

brett cooper? I literally got it on my recommended yesterday and holy shit people are braindead

[โ€“] USSEthernet@startrek.website 6 points 11 hours ago

I had to go digging. It's Pearl or something.

[โ€“] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

You mean fem shapiro.