people are encouraged to have kiddos so the ruling class can use them as labor, pawns, toys and soldiers. We won't be banning anyone from having kids. We'll ban them from doing things that don't benefit, enrich and amuse the top 1%. Like we always have. Even while those 1%ers indulge themselves in the very things they banned, like they always have.
You'd think after well over 2000 years of record history we'd have figured this shit out... Doomed to repeat it I guess.
right after Pai was in and signaled he would kill NN my ISP started metering my bandwidth. They hadn't done that for a few decades (literally, I've had high speed cable since the 90s when it was only $40/mo. I got it because it was literally cheaper than dial up and a second line). That wasn't a co-iniki-dink. Pai emboldened them.
They're also busy fucking with Netflix. The only reason they haven't started charging a Netflix tax is they're worried if they do it too soon folks will rebel and elect a Democrat in 2020. The mass of voters respond consistently to very, very little, but there's one thing that _always_ moves them: Price increases. 60-80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck (depending on if you consider $1000 bucks in the bank as "not paycheck-to-paycheck") so it's no damn surprise. Hell, I'll say this, I know folk who'll admit to living paycheck-to-paycheck. Lots of them. It's so pervasive that it's not a stigma anymore. We're not "temporarily inconvenienced millionaires" anymore. We know which side our bread's buttered on and it's the wrong side.
Raise the cost of internet & NetFlix and make sure every damn body knows Trump & Pai were responsible and you'll have a revolt at the polls. Metering you can get away with because it's tough for the rank and file to get their heads around. But make no mistake, the Netflix tax is coming and much, much worse.
1. Cut taxes on their donors.
2. Cut regulations, which sounds good in theory, until you remember 2008 and how cutting regulations got us there. Or safety regs on mines. Or live in a place like Flint, Mi, or any one of the thousands of regulations that help you personally that folks like to forget about or pretend won't be cut.
3. End Social Security & Medicare. It's at the point where they'll have to raise the cap on taxable income to pay for it, and that would mean cutting into their donor's profits, again.
4. Give the Evangelicals anything they want so long as it doesn't inconvenience their donors. Overturning Roe v Wade, allowing discrimination against the folks evangelicals don't like and yes, that's up to and including theocracy. Look at Saudi Arabia and how the ruling class lives large and without moral constraints while the working class follows the Koran to the letter. Think that but with King James.
5. More war, more empire building.
6. And while all this is going on take as much money for themselves as they can
There are others, and yes you'll find right wing Dems like Joe Biden and Beto O'Rouke going along with most if not all of the above (both Biden & Beto have got behind a program to end Social Security and replace it with a means tested welfare program, and Chuck Schumer & Pelosi have been selling us out to their donors for years. ).
It's always the same damn thing though. Our ruling class is clawing back the ground they lost post WWII. What I find so frustrating is how obvious they are about it and how nobody seems to give a damn. Especially if they've got theirs (fuck me).
But getting back to my point, the GOP is _not_ just being contrarian. They have a very specific agenda, long term and well financed. The sooner we figure out that their agenda isn't compatible with our continued well being the sooner we can do something about it.
as it was right after it stopped hosting what was basically pirated content and was a place bands put their stuff to get noticed. I think the real reason the RIAA shut it down so hard is that a bunch of bands were making a good living off it. Can't have bands being independent of labels, now can we?
The point is to get the GOP on record supporting something that will likely raise your cable bill (or phone bill if you're on DSL). That's an issue that can resonate with voters. From there it becomes election fodder to win seats and push the presidency over the edge.
Finally when the Dems have a Majority they can pass the bill. It's that a PIA? Yes, yes it is. But it's the only way to get pro consumer shit done. It's not like consumers have a multi million dollar lobby to stand up for them. All we've got are a few left leaning Dems and the facts on our side.
Trump and the bulk of our government are all members of Royalty. We just don't call them that, but they got where they got because of enormous amounts of money and connections given to them by their parents; e.g. hereditary. Also they consistently argue that they're ordained by God (e.g. prosperity gospel); e.g. divine right of kings.
It's nothing new. We got away from it because it was expensive to run the RDP and web apps did most of what we needed (with the occasional terminal emulator for mainframe stuff).
This is just Microsoft hoping to sell Windows as a "Service" so I can pay $300/yr per employee for Windows.
it applies across the board, and includes lots more provisions to punish corrupt CEOs like the folks who crashed our economy in 2008.
The reason she's focused on tech firms is that the media narrative is that the tech firms and the Democrats are in cahoots, so that anything she proposes to regulate to general businesses would be framed in that narrative ("why are you going after such and such and leaving Silicon Valley alone Ms Warren, hmmmm?"). This is a smart political move to defang one of the chief distracting narratives that would normally be used against her. It hurts the bill a little bit with techy nerds, but we're a tiny, tiny minority, and a lot of us (like me) see what she's doing there.
You care about privacy to protect what you have, and what you have gets less and less every year.
This isn't a shot at tech companies. She just did that so it's harder to criticize her (after all, the tech companies just love liberals). No, this is a shot at the folks who crashed the economy in 2008. After that working class Americans lost trillions in wealth. That wealth wasn't destroyed, it was pocketed by the rich. It was the single biggest wealth transfer in my life. Maybe in history.
The trouble here is we focus to much on how Facebook knows what color car we like best or our favorite restaurant and not enough on the massive wealth grab that happens every 10 years when corrupt businessmen and politicians crash the economy and then buy up our assets at rock bottom prices while we're laid off.
it's large power structures encouraging a general distrust of science. Mega corporations fight climate change science. You've got Young Earth creationists railing against evolution and claiming the ark flood happened. And to this day people believe in trickle down economics crap like the Laffer curve and the "Job Creator" narrative.
A lot of very wealthy people are spending a ton of money to convince people that science doesn't work so we won't listen to those pesky scientists because if we did we'd cost those wealthy people an awful lot of money...
TL;DW, plants "breath" through little holes and they lose water when they breath. The close those holes to prevent water loss. They have to balance water loss and CO2 intake. As temperatures rise they'll take in less CO2 to avoid the water loss. Making increased CO2 a bust for plant growth in many if not most cases.
it's that we know that there were extinction events the last time there was a major change in climate. And we're going through one of those changes now. It takes a scientist to prove that beyond reasonable doubt, but a layman can put two and two together.
Also the market place of ideas starts to fall down when you factor in spam. It completely collapses under the weight of moneyed interests.
Good example: Right now corporate owned media is trying to cram Joe Biden down my throat. MSNBC has been attacking the women who called him out on being handsy; being careful to tell us how this is ever so much different than when they black balled Al Franken. Why? Because Biden's already promised to slash Social Security meanwhile Bernie Sanders wants to raise the tax cap to fund it.
My point is we focus too much on YouTube and not enough on the billionaires that run our media.
The Koch Brothers are taking over the Universities. They've already bought out the economics departments and replaced a large chunk of the professors with the sort of Neo-Liberal MBA guys that are busy figuring out how to replace you with an offshore resource or better yet a computer.
Stop spending all your time and attention on social issues. I get it. SJWs are annoying as fuck. But they're a small minority with very, very little actual power. There are extraordinarily wealthy and powerful people who don't have your best interests at heart and they're busy reshaping the world to suit themselves.
that Hate Crime is increasing while the rest of violent crime decreases. Here's the article you're probably referencing. Since it was the 1st hit on google.
We fought hard to delegitimize organized violence against minorities in this country. There was widespread anti-black terrorism committed with impunity right up until the 70s (and the occasional incident in the 80s and 90s).
It's not that Americans evolved some higher form of intelligence or empathy. We're the same folk we were 40 years ago minus a chunk of bigotry. What I'm saying is that it would be effortless for us to regress back to the KKK days. I'm a white dude and I do not want that.
Hitler didn't run on Genocide. Nobody ever leads with it. It starts out with angry, disaffected people who get conditioned into violence over time. See for an explanation for how you go from Edge Lord to an Alt-Right rally where folks are chanting "Jews will not replace us" carrying torches. The follow up video is good too.
What I'm saying is that there is a process to radicalization. Now, there's two ends to fight that. One the one end you've got YouTube demoting the Edge Lords in ranking and banning the ones that outright advocate violence (even when it's in the "Won't somebody rid me of this meddlesome priest" vein, and yes I know that quote isn't historically accurate, I can read Wikipedia too ya know). On the other hand you've got guys like Bernie Sanders and Gals like AOC pushing for jobs programs (Green New Deal), Universal access to higher education & healthcare and a general improvement in the working class' lives so that Edge Lords lose the social & economic pressures that move them along the pipeline described above.
But no society can leave Edge Lords to fester indefinitely. Eventually somebody is going to exploit their anger and frustration, organize them, give them weapons and then send them off to commit atrocities. That's because if you don't do something with them they run rampant. That's what people do when they run out of options. And at that point your choices are to either solve their problems for real (e.g. Bernie Sanders/AOC) or manufacture an enemy for them to take their frustrations out on (Jews, Mexicans, Blacks, the Dalits, Burakumin/Eta, every country's got one in their history).
Or did you mean terrorists? The sad thing is you got modded up +5 with that little Freudian slip. Or did you mean videos recruiting to Islam? Ok, should we pull the 700 club's channel?
Anyway, terrorists videos get pulled when reported, Linda Sarsour seems to just advocate for Palestine (I don't know that much about here, but I couldn't find anything antisemitic there), Pallywood is a pretty controversial concept in and of itself and Communists are generally a pretty peaceable bunch on YouTube, certainly not what I'd called Toxic.
Also, anyone else notice that whenever anyone says "incendiary & toxic" people's thoughts immediately turn to the Alt-Right? I'm not trying to troll here, it's just a fact (facts don't care about you're feelings... ok, I'm trolling a little with that last one:) ).
I will say this: If I follow the far left rabbit hole all the way down I find a few anarchists yelling "Punch Nazis". If I follow the alt-right rabbit hole down I end up at a white ethno-state with hints of genocide. What I'm saying is the two are not even remotely equivalent.
I've never seen it one way or another. Google seems to guard that algorithm pretty closely (not surprisingly). Anecdotally they seem to send me more and more of the same kinds of videos I just searched for or watched.
So I look up some Alpha Omega Sin (a right leaning game channel) I'll get a few right leaning videos in my feed. Click a few of those and before long I'll have some Sargon of Arkad and Count Dankula. Keep going and eventually I hit Baked Alaska and eventually Richard Spencer (or his friends).
Same works for the left. Start on Kim Justice (a trans UK games journalist) and before long I'll be watching The Young Turks and Noncompete. Lately I've been getting videos of actual anarchists (the non violent kind) and Marxists.
A more amusing example, my bud subscribed to a Warhammer 40k painting channel. The YouTuber was also Trans and did their trans videos on the same channel. My brother couldn't figure out why YouTube decided he was LGBTQ. The 40k painter did a video explaining it and that she was splitting her channel.
I actually unsubbed from Alpha Omega Sin because I got tired of the alt-right videos in my feed. I'd prefer him to split that off more like Pat the NES punk did and for the same reasons. There are some rabbit holes I don't want to even gaze into let alone go down.
it's not too hard to get out of your bubble yourself by clicking some videos (or going into private browsing and/or a VPN if you really want to). There's been several lefties who ran down the alt-right rabbit hole and wrote about it.
if I'm watching anti-anti-vaxxer videos would YouTube recommend actual anti-vaxxer videos?
That said, I'm a lefty McLefty and I get the occasional right wing video in my channel. Mostly Sargon of Arkad. I used to get a fair amount of them actually because I subscribe to a bunch of atheist channels (Aronra, Genetic Skeptic) but the bulk of the YouTube skeptic community pivoted to anti-SJW vids about a year ago (more view, more patreon donations, they followed the money) and I couldn't care less about that so they gradually disappeared from my feed.
YouTube wants to show me the next video I will watch. That's the "engagement" they're talking about. Their algorithm just tracks what I'm likely to click. So I look up a few videos on "The problem of Evil" and a few of the skeptics who switched to 24/7 anti-SJW might show up in my feed, but they'll figure out pretty quick I'm not clicking and steer me towards somebody like Shaun or Noncompete.
I can't say I've done a comprehensive enough study of the art of shit posting, but I know it when it see it.
That said, a YouTuber who goes by Shaun has done a pretty good job of calmly and rationally calling out the current crop of shit posters. Here's a good example. He's got plenty more.
For a good explanation of why this kind of shit posting is a problem see Noncompete's video here. The TL;DR; is that is a radicalization pipeline.
As for me, most of these YouTube agitators can be traced back to right wing think tanks like the ones run by the Kock brothers. The reason you're seeing them explode isn't just YouTube ignoring them, it's because they're going to conventions run by those think tanks where they're being taught how to grow and control a large audience. Seriously, pay attention to the venues and trips guys like Sargon of Arkad and Ben Shapiro attend. They're getting a huge amount of extremely valuable advice and training at the larger of those events. This isn't the help and advice you get from a grass roots org like "Justice Democrats". These are decades old professional PR firms that exit to push a right wing agenda.
These guys are basically propaganda for billionaires. They're not just shit posting, they're pushing a very specific right wing, pro-corporate agenda (low taxes, low regulation, anti-Union, etc). Spend a bit of time on the YouTube channels I linked above and you can confirm this for yourself.
What I'm saying is this: These guys are not your friends and they're not just randos on the net. There is a very specific purpose behind them. I just wish more folks were aware of it. I don't think they'd like it if they knew.
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people are encouraged to have kiddos so the ruling class can use them as labor, pawns, toys and soldiers. We won't be banning anyone from having kids. We'll ban them from doing things that don't benefit, enrich and amuse the top 1%. Like we always have. Even while those 1%ers indulge themselves in the very things they banned, like they always have.
You'd think after well over 2000 years of record history we'd have figured this shit out... Doomed to repeat it I guess.
right after Pai was in and signaled he would kill NN my ISP started metering my bandwidth. They hadn't done that for a few decades (literally, I've had high speed cable since the 90s when it was only $40/mo. I got it because it was literally cheaper than dial up and a second line). That wasn't a co-iniki-dink. Pai emboldened them.
They're also busy fucking with Netflix. The only reason they haven't started charging a Netflix tax is they're worried if they do it too soon folks will rebel and elect a Democrat in 2020. The mass of voters respond consistently to very, very little, but there's one thing that _always_ moves them: Price increases. 60-80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck (depending on if you consider $1000 bucks in the bank as "not paycheck-to-paycheck") so it's no damn surprise. Hell, I'll say this, I know folk who'll admit to living paycheck-to-paycheck. Lots of them. It's so pervasive that it's not a stigma anymore. We're not "temporarily inconvenienced millionaires" anymore. We know which side our bread's buttered on and it's the wrong side.
Raise the cost of internet & NetFlix and make sure every damn body knows Trump & Pai were responsible and you'll have a revolt at the polls. Metering you can get away with because it's tough for the rank and file to get their heads around. But make no mistake, the Netflix tax is coming and much, much worse.
they have a very specific agenda, to wit:
1. Cut taxes on their donors.
2. Cut regulations, which sounds good in theory, until you remember 2008 and how cutting regulations got us there. Or safety regs on mines. Or live in a place like Flint, Mi, or any one of the thousands of regulations that help you personally that folks like to forget about or pretend won't be cut.
3. End Social Security & Medicare. It's at the point where they'll have to raise the cap on taxable income to pay for it, and that would mean cutting into their donor's profits, again.
4. Give the Evangelicals anything they want so long as it doesn't inconvenience their donors. Overturning Roe v Wade, allowing discrimination against the folks evangelicals don't like and yes, that's up to and including theocracy. Look at Saudi Arabia and how the ruling class lives large and without moral constraints while the working class follows the Koran to the letter. Think that but with King James.
5. More war, more empire building.
6. And while all this is going on take as much money for themselves as they can
There are others, and yes you'll find right wing Dems like Joe Biden and Beto O'Rouke going along with most if not all of the above (both Biden & Beto have got behind a program to end Social Security and replace it with a means tested welfare program, and Chuck Schumer & Pelosi have been selling us out to their donors for years. ).
It's always the same damn thing though. Our ruling class is clawing back the ground they lost post WWII. What I find so frustrating is how obvious they are about it and how nobody seems to give a damn. Especially if they've got theirs (fuck me).
But getting back to my point, the GOP is _not_ just being contrarian. They have a very specific agenda, long term and well financed. The sooner we figure out that their agenda isn't compatible with our continued well being the sooner we can do something about it.
as it was right after it stopped hosting what was basically pirated content and was a place bands put their stuff to get noticed. I think the real reason the RIAA shut it down so hard is that a bunch of bands were making a good living off it. Can't have bands being independent of labels, now can we?
The point is to get the GOP on record supporting something that will likely raise your cable bill (or phone bill if you're on DSL). That's an issue that can resonate with voters. From there it becomes election fodder to win seats and push the presidency over the edge.
Finally when the Dems have a Majority they can pass the bill. It's that a PIA? Yes, yes it is. But it's the only way to get pro consumer shit done. It's not like consumers have a multi million dollar lobby to stand up for them. All we've got are a few left leaning Dems and the facts on our side.
Trump and the bulk of our government are all members of Royalty. We just don't call them that, but they got where they got because of enormous amounts of money and connections given to them by their parents; e.g. hereditary. Also they consistently argue that they're ordained by God (e.g. prosperity gospel); e.g. divine right of kings.
A ruling class by any name would oppress as much.
Get back to work peasants. These castles aren't going to build themselves.
It's nothing new. We got away from it because it was expensive to run the RDP and web apps did most of what we needed (with the occasional terminal emulator for mainframe stuff).
This is just Microsoft hoping to sell Windows as a "Service" so I can pay $300/yr per employee for Windows.
Don't you mean origin elephant?
it applies across the board, and includes lots more provisions to punish corrupt CEOs like the folks who crashed our economy in 2008.
The reason she's focused on tech firms is that the media narrative is that the tech firms and the Democrats are in cahoots, so that anything she proposes to regulate to general businesses would be framed in that narrative ("why are you going after such and such and leaving Silicon Valley alone Ms Warren, hmmmm?"). This is a smart political move to defang one of the chief distracting narratives that would normally be used against her. It hurts the bill a little bit with techy nerds, but we're a tiny, tiny minority, and a lot of us (like me) see what she's doing there.
You care about privacy to protect what you have, and what you have gets less and less every year.
This isn't a shot at tech companies. She just did that so it's harder to criticize her (after all, the tech companies just love liberals). No, this is a shot at the folks who crashed the economy in 2008. After that working class Americans lost trillions in wealth. That wealth wasn't destroyed, it was pocketed by the rich. It was the single biggest wealth transfer in my life. Maybe in history.
The trouble here is we focus to much on how Facebook knows what color car we like best or our favorite restaurant and not enough on the massive wealth grab that happens every 10 years when corrupt businessmen and politicians crash the economy and then buy up our assets at rock bottom prices while we're laid off.
it's large power structures encouraging a general distrust of science. Mega corporations fight climate change science. You've got Young Earth creationists railing against evolution and claiming the ark flood happened. And to this day people believe in trickle down economics crap like the Laffer curve and the "Job Creator" narrative.
A lot of very wealthy people are spending a ton of money to convince people that science doesn't work so we won't listen to those pesky scientists because if we did we'd cost those wealthy people an awful lot of money...
By YouTuber Professor Stick..
TL;DW, plants "breath" through little holes and they lose water when they breath. The close those holes to prevent water loss. They have to balance water loss and CO2 intake. As temperatures rise they'll take in less CO2 to avoid the water loss. Making increased CO2 a bust for plant growth in many if not most cases.
it's that we know that there were extinction events the last time there was a major change in climate. And we're going through one of those changes now. It takes a scientist to prove that beyond reasonable doubt, but a layman can put two and two together.
while suggesting they rule you.
Also the market place of ideas starts to fall down when you factor in spam. It completely collapses under the weight of moneyed interests.
Good example: Right now corporate owned media is trying to cram Joe Biden down my throat. MSNBC has been attacking the women who called him out on being handsy; being careful to tell us how this is ever so much different than when they black balled Al Franken. Why? Because Biden's already promised to slash Social Security meanwhile Bernie Sanders wants to raise the tax cap to fund it.
My point is we focus too much on YouTube and not enough on the billionaires that run our media.
you're suggestion all Muslims are terrorists, right? Because, I mean, you are, and you seem pretty unapologetic about it.
The Koch Brothers are taking over the Universities. They've already bought out the economics departments and replaced a large chunk of the professors with the sort of Neo-Liberal MBA guys that are busy figuring out how to replace you with an offshore resource or better yet a computer.
Stop spending all your time and attention on social issues. I get it. SJWs are annoying as fuck. But they're a small minority with very, very little actual power. There are extraordinarily wealthy and powerful people who don't have your best interests at heart and they're busy reshaping the world to suit themselves.
that Hate Crime is increasing while the rest of violent crime decreases. Here's the article you're probably referencing. Since it was the 1st hit on google.
We fought hard to delegitimize organized violence against minorities in this country. There was widespread anti-black terrorism committed with impunity right up until the 70s (and the occasional incident in the 80s and 90s).
It's not that Americans evolved some higher form of intelligence or empathy. We're the same folk we were 40 years ago minus a chunk of bigotry. What I'm saying is that it would be effortless for us to regress back to the KKK days. I'm a white dude and I do not want that.
Hitler didn't run on Genocide. Nobody ever leads with it. It starts out with angry, disaffected people who get conditioned into violence over time. See for an explanation for how you go from Edge Lord to an Alt-Right rally where folks are chanting "Jews will not replace us" carrying torches. The follow up video is good too.
What I'm saying is that there is a process to radicalization. Now, there's two ends to fight that. One the one end you've got YouTube demoting the Edge Lords in ranking and banning the ones that outright advocate violence (even when it's in the "Won't somebody rid me of this meddlesome priest" vein, and yes I know that quote isn't historically accurate, I can read Wikipedia too ya know). On the other hand you've got guys like Bernie Sanders and Gals like AOC pushing for jobs programs (Green New Deal), Universal access to higher education & healthcare and a general improvement in the working class' lives so that Edge Lords lose the social & economic pressures that move them along the pipeline described above.
But no society can leave Edge Lords to fester indefinitely. Eventually somebody is going to exploit their anger and frustration, organize them, give them weapons and then send them off to commit atrocities. That's because if you don't do something with them they run rampant. That's what people do when they run out of options. And at that point your choices are to either solve their problems for real (e.g. Bernie Sanders/AOC) or manufacture an enemy for them to take their frustrations out on (Jews, Mexicans, Blacks, the Dalits, Burakumin/Eta, every country's got one in their history).
Or did you mean terrorists? The sad thing is you got modded up +5 with that little Freudian slip. Or did you mean videos recruiting to Islam? Ok, should we pull the 700 club's channel?
:) ).
Anyway, terrorists videos get pulled when reported, Linda Sarsour seems to just advocate for Palestine (I don't know that much about here, but I couldn't find anything antisemitic there), Pallywood is a pretty controversial concept in and of itself and Communists are generally a pretty peaceable bunch on YouTube, certainly not what I'd called Toxic.
Also, anyone else notice that whenever anyone says "incendiary & toxic" people's thoughts immediately turn to the Alt-Right? I'm not trying to troll here, it's just a fact (facts don't care about you're feelings... ok, I'm trolling a little with that last one
I will say this: If I follow the far left rabbit hole all the way down I find a few anarchists yelling "Punch Nazis". If I follow the alt-right rabbit hole down I end up at a white ethno-state with hints of genocide. What I'm saying is the two are not even remotely equivalent.
I've never seen it one way or another. Google seems to guard that algorithm pretty closely (not surprisingly). Anecdotally they seem to send me more and more of the same kinds of videos I just searched for or watched.
So I look up some Alpha Omega Sin (a right leaning game channel) I'll get a few right leaning videos in my feed. Click a few of those and before long I'll have some Sargon of Arkad and Count Dankula. Keep going and eventually I hit Baked Alaska and eventually Richard Spencer (or his friends).
Same works for the left. Start on Kim Justice (a trans UK games journalist) and before long I'll be watching The Young Turks and Noncompete. Lately I've been getting videos of actual anarchists (the non violent kind) and Marxists.
A more amusing example, my bud subscribed to a Warhammer 40k painting channel. The YouTuber was also Trans and did their trans videos on the same channel. My brother couldn't figure out why YouTube decided he was LGBTQ. The 40k painter did a video explaining it and that she was splitting her channel.
I actually unsubbed from Alpha Omega Sin because I got tired of the alt-right videos in my feed. I'd prefer him to split that off more like Pat the NES punk did and for the same reasons. There are some rabbit holes I don't want to even gaze into let alone go down.
it's not too hard to get out of your bubble yourself by clicking some videos (or going into private browsing and/or a VPN if you really want to). There's been several lefties who ran down the alt-right rabbit hole and wrote about it.
if I'm watching anti-anti-vaxxer videos would YouTube recommend actual anti-vaxxer videos?
That said, I'm a lefty McLefty and I get the occasional right wing video in my channel. Mostly Sargon of Arkad. I used to get a fair amount of them actually because I subscribe to a bunch of atheist channels (Aronra, Genetic Skeptic) but the bulk of the YouTube skeptic community pivoted to anti-SJW vids about a year ago (more view, more patreon donations, they followed the money) and I couldn't care less about that so they gradually disappeared from my feed.
YouTube wants to show me the next video I will watch. That's the "engagement" they're talking about. Their algorithm just tracks what I'm likely to click. So I look up a few videos on "The problem of Evil" and a few of the skeptics who switched to 24/7 anti-SJW might show up in my feed, but they'll figure out pretty quick I'm not clicking and steer me towards somebody like Shaun or Noncompete.
I can't say I've done a comprehensive enough study of the art of shit posting, but I know it when it see it.
That said, a YouTuber who goes by Shaun has done a pretty good job of calmly and rationally calling out the current crop of shit posters. Here's a good example. He's got plenty more.
For a good explanation of why this kind of shit posting is a problem see Noncompete's video here. The TL;DR; is that is a radicalization pipeline.
As for me, most of these YouTube agitators can be traced back to right wing think tanks like the ones run by the Kock brothers. The reason you're seeing them explode isn't just YouTube ignoring them, it's because they're going to conventions run by those think tanks where they're being taught how to grow and control a large audience. Seriously, pay attention to the venues and trips guys like Sargon of Arkad and Ben Shapiro attend. They're getting a huge amount of extremely valuable advice and training at the larger of those events. This isn't the help and advice you get from a grass roots org like "Justice Democrats". These are decades old professional PR firms that exit to push a right wing agenda.
These guys are basically propaganda for billionaires. They're not just shit posting, they're pushing a very specific right wing, pro-corporate agenda (low taxes, low regulation, anti-Union, etc). Spend a bit of time on the YouTube channels I linked above and you can confirm this for yourself.
What I'm saying is this: These guys are not your friends and they're not just randos on the net. There is a very specific purpose behind them. I just wish more folks were aware of it. I don't think they'd like it if they knew.
has been for years. This is just part of it.