Covid was especially bad. It’s a very short online road from “Does the Covid vaccine have side effects?” to having opinions about Hunter Biden or that Ukrainians had it coming.
A lot of it seems aimed at American politics, and can infect anyone who speaks English. Starting to think Kojima’s wackier MSGV plotline has some merit to it.
Not just English sadly, it‘s being translated to German too and so my mother ended up going the same way, it was honestly surprising to hear her rant about George Soros and Clintons and Biden like that when she never cared about American politics before.
It is bananas, and this pipeline isn’t even purely alt-right, even though it leads into a lot of bonkers alt-right rhetoric and talking points. My mother (65 years old, white, cis-het woman, Swedish) has always been pretty liberal. She’s a nurse, with an education, though when I was little she changed gears and went into botany instead. She was always a bit crunchy, and I think that was the “open door” necessary for all this ridiculous propaganda to be let in.
When I grew up, she always had LGBTQ+ friends, like her closest friend is a lesbian potter/bus driver. Wonderful woman. Now she posts homo-and-transphobic propo videos on her facebook page, spread PragerU bullshit, and all sorts of other ridiculous things.
Don’t get me wrong, she was never an unproblematic person, and even without all this weird alt-right radical propo I’d still not be in touch with her but I just don’t understand how her personal moral values can have been subverted so.
On the topic of Kojima, you might be pretty close to the mark as there is a through line from MGS2 as well: themes of mis-information, fake news and the problems of having too much information for any single person to parse. The guy was way ahead of his time
Covid was especially bad. It’s a very short online road from “Does the Covid vaccine have side effects?” to having opinions about Hunter Biden or that Ukrainians had it coming.
A lot of it seems aimed at American politics, and can infect anyone who speaks English. Starting to think Kojima’s wackier MSGV plotline has some merit to it.
Not just English sadly, it‘s being translated to German too and so my mother ended up going the same way, it was honestly surprising to hear her rant about George Soros and Clintons and Biden like that when she never cared about American politics before.
It is bananas, and this pipeline isn’t even purely alt-right, even though it leads into a lot of bonkers alt-right rhetoric and talking points. My mother (65 years old, white, cis-het woman, Swedish) has always been pretty liberal. She’s a nurse, with an education, though when I was little she changed gears and went into botany instead. She was always a bit crunchy, and I think that was the “open door” necessary for all this ridiculous propaganda to be let in.
When I grew up, she always had LGBTQ+ friends, like her closest friend is a lesbian potter/bus driver. Wonderful woman. Now she posts homo-and-transphobic propo videos on her facebook page, spread PragerU bullshit, and all sorts of other ridiculous things.
Don’t get me wrong, she was never an unproblematic person, and even without all this weird alt-right radical propo I’d still not be in touch with her but I just don’t understand how her personal moral values can have been subverted so.
Deleting. Explained in above link to article crunchy to alt-right pipeline
On the topic of Kojima, you might be pretty close to the mark as there is a through line from MGS2 as well: themes of mis-information, fake news and the problems of having too much information for any single person to parse. The guy was way ahead of his time