Are they living too far away? Too poor to go there? Bots? Laziness? Are they not interested in military parades despite liking to denounce protesters?

What’s the big reason?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    32·
    6 个月前

    racism is easier to support online than in person.

    the best way to resolve racist opinions is to coerce those with abhorrent views to see their targets as human beings exactly like themselves. having this happen physically, in person, is a requirement.

  • zbyte64
    17·
    6 个月前

    Aside from the systemic reasons why the internet leans heavily right: when you deport people’s neighbors then politics is no longer a sports game and even the nonvoters understand this.

    • Soulcreator@programming.dev
      5·
      6 个月前

      I’d love to know your thoughts why the Internet is systemically right leaning? I don’t spend too much time on the political side of YouTube, but similar to op I’ve been perpetually confused as to why Instagram runs so hard to the right.

      The idea that the Internet being systemically right leaning is super interesting and may explain a lot.

      • zbyte64
        2·
        6 个月前

        I mean churches should be anticapitalist and before the turn of the last century they often were. But then property got expensive and churches would need loans… Now we have prosperity gospel and mega churches. The internet ran the same course but in just a couple decades.

  • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    6 个月前

    Because ‘fuck those guys who are inconveniencing me, let me rant on youtube for free and maybe make some money’ is a lot more accessible than ‘yay that guy, let me spend a bunch of money to show up at his thing’.

  • shiroininja@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 个月前

    A lot of those people are from rural areas and are afraid of cities like DC. Lmao. Source: I am From DC and now live in a rural area and my yokel coworkers thinks anything past the 66/81 interchange is a hellscape

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    6 个月前

    The AI bots wanted to attend but the tech to give them robot bodies isn’t ready yet. It’s okay though, they were there in spirit.

  • IttihadChe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    6 个月前

    Bots and people like asmongold who have no actual human connection and stay in their basement all day don’t typically go to parades.

  • PixelPilgrim@lemmings.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 个月前

    I never noticed but I can say that places where they announced a no kings day celebration in a very red area people where talking shit about running over protesters but at the event no one actually violent. At best shouting in a public area.

    Id go with people act the way they want online, but the act different in front of a human