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?
Astroturfing doesn’t translate well IRL.
Grifters, who don’t care but act like they do for money.
Astrofurfing, who are being paid to say things.
Bots, who aren’t people so can’t attend.
Difficult to attend the parade, flights from Russia are spendy.
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.
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’.
There is astroturfing, but there is also a lot of propaganda and story curation around the protests.
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.
Bots and people like asmongold who have no actual human connection and stay in their basement all day don’t typically go to parades.
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.
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.
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.
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
Some are too busy posting on your instance than attending
I was able to watch it on youtube in the comfort of my home without having to deal with travel, parking, and protester crap.
Fear is marketed. It makes money.
