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Social media companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter are pushing an alt-right conservative agenda and their conspiracies. It’s pretty appalling.

Not only pushing it, but targeting it with algorithms that are explicitly designed to take advantage of vulnerable minds. It's not only appalling, but unethical in every way.

Zoe Bee had a pretty good video on the Parents Rights stuff, too: https://youtu.be/mNOmFBw1I_M?si=btywuWSuG9ESJefB

And Shaun took on Andrew Tate recently: https://youtu.be/y6_TOFy3k6k?si=wFGX0fOYwinGLtRA

Shaun also has a notorious video discussing The Bell Curve, which is very, very good. The Bell Curve is a cornerstone of alt-right bullshit, since it's one of the foundational books for "scientific race realism": https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo?si=YoqG8dJd9g4U8B5h

Here's Unlearning Economics taking on Jordan Peterson and his views on gender discrimination: https://youtu.be/LKc_8fT6pGc?si=px5EupxJ7w3hslTG

Shaun again, this time discussing PragerU: https://youtu.be/EM7BgrddY18?si=NhawD6OoYbwiPr2t

This one's less direct, but still actually relevant to toxic masculinity and conspiracy mindsets -- Thought Slime discussing Gary Vee: https://youtu.be/OVE8J8dwJ5E?si=7h5wEQPsjhMjBd63

Here's We're in Hell discussing toxic masculinity in North America: https://youtu.be/MsEmOQeBcRA?si=Vo5S_iDaXlCV6IR4

And getting a little more high level about things, here's Innuendo Studios (the Alt-Right Playbook guy) discussing the origin of conservatism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk&t=333s which is itself an appendix to his Alt-Right Playbook episode, Always a Bigger Fish

These should give you at least a starting point, and help you build up a video history that will direct YT's recommendation engine away from the shit you're trying to counter.

I don't have any particular advice for dealing with someone going down the nutjob rabbit hole but you might want to watch this: https://youtu.be/4xGawJIseNY?si=3wSkuLQIsi6PnPTT - it does the best job that I've seen of breaking down how and why people fall for that garbage.

I don’t know off the top of my head if there’s an episode about parents rights but I bet Cody’s Showdy has something. I know there’s a dedicated Jordan Peterson video which is really quick and easy(it’s actually 3 hours long, but very good)

Edit: here’s their ep titled Who Are The Real Groomers which has some good stuff debunking anti trans rhetoric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHva3JXPh0

Edit2: And here’s the brief takedown of Jordan Balthazar Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSNWkRw53Jo

Edit3: Cody, Katy, and Robert Evans have done a lot of work against the ‘manosphere’ and it’s worth digging through their backlogs

I read something recently that simply getting the person to stop consuming the stuff works well. Obviously there's a dopamine hit these things are giving (like most anything we watch) so that's much easier said than done. I wonder if suggesting you do a challenge together - uninstall/restrict apps for 30 days - and put something on the line like a case of beer.

It's difficult though, my mom and a brother both fell pretty hard into it (he even got into sovereign citizen stuff).

The pillar of democracy is participation. But I'm not sure anyone actually does that. At best they will participate in the representative hiring process, but even then they will 'forget' to actually talk to the person they hired afterwards, thinking the person is a mind reader or something.

I homeschool my kid (properly) for medical reasons, and I did not realize until I tried going to homeschool events how messed up the culture is. I'm in a purple state. It's so hard to find anyone who homeschools who isn't bigoted. There are a few, and I'm trying to cultivate relationships with them, but it's difficult when they're so few and far between. My county is liberal, but the city in the next county over would be a better fit if we could move or regularly travel an hour away. I don't want my kid around these bigoted parents. He has good friends who are in public school, but my kid is too young to go to school with his multiple medical conditions (especially considering I've personally seen these schools neglect medically fragile kids), so he mostly only gets to see his friends on the weekends.