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Surprising absolutely nobody. 
Social media is designed to create fascists.
It’s why I wouldn’t mind if my country had age restrictions or outright bans on social media. Most people are too tech illiterate to figure out how to navigate outside of those apps.
The problem with the age restrictions is that it does nothing to actually stop things. The kids can't make a facebook account, but they can browse 4Chan.
I would like to hear more about the mechanisms of this.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable on the topic, hopefully someone else can explain or link something more in-depth. But just based on personal experience, have you seen the youtube or twitter algorithms, etc? They basically hand feed you reactionary far-right content regardless of your usage habits. It probably only takes a few minutes within making a new account and clicking on/viewing the content that is shown or recommended to you for it to start showing you reactionary content. And if you interact with those in any way, it will start giving you more and more.
I found a random article talking about it in regards to youtube: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtubes-algorithm-recommends-users-right-wing-religious-content-resea-rcna155478
I've seen videos of people making a new YouTube account and just letting videos autoplay until it starts getting fashy (Doesn't take long!)
all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.
Never trust any self-professed "leftist" who condemns Hamas.
I saw a Durex full of Sabra at the grocery store the other day, no idea why anyone would be down for condom hummus.
right wing, religious supremacist and genocidal nation is filled with people who are right wing, fanatically religious and pro-genocide???
This can only end well in the same way nazi g*rmany was dealt with. Fascists can't be stopped by words, they don't share basic ethical values and see other people as subhuman. It's a shame, really. But what other way of stopping this social perversion is there?
Nazi Germany wasn't even dealt with. It was integrated into the US NATO apparatus. De-nazification is a myth, the Nuremberg Trials were a limited hangout only done at the insistence of Stalin.
If you want to know how to actually decolonize and denazify, you instead have to look at how DPRK handled Japanese and American collaborators via the Songbun system. Those who betrayed the country are expressly blocked and forbidden from gaining any political or economic power for the rest of their lives, their families also blocked until they prove that they are loyal revolutionaries through service and deed.
If you go to public school in Germany you are literally taught that one of the main factors for the rise of nazism was that pro-monarchy judges from the German Empire got to keep their government offices in the Weimar Republic and blocked all social progress they possibly could
You are also taught that the Red Army Faction demanding ex-nazi officials shouldn't keep their offices was unreasonable and evil 
You are right, I was thinking mostly about East Germany, the west was a joke. Thanks for providing the example of Korea, I didn't know how it was handled in the north, only that occupied South Korea kept the same korean military police from the japanese era.
Any readings on the songbun system? Only seeing liberal brainworm NGO's when i look it up
Fuck the two state solution! Must decolonize!
I think "sins of our fathers" is perfectly justifiable if the offspring are actively carrying on their fore bearer's legacy and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
it's strictly not sins of the father if the new generation is doubling down on it. they earn their own place in the pit.
sins of the father is some bullshit where you ignore the position or actions of the children in favor of the vendetta
What? An entire generation has seen this genocide through all phases, and the younger generation has overseen its most violent
Iran bombing civilians should be on the table at this point.
Essentially the Hitler Youth being raised by their fascist education system.
Probably even more radicalized thanks to social media giving confirmation bias.