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I already responded to everything in this comment on my previous one, which you ignored just like you ignored everyone correcting you. You’re clearly antisemitic and wants to coat that by talking about the genocide. If you want so bad to act like a fucking nazi and hate the jews the only thing pieces of shit like you deserve is a ban.
You conflate Jews and Zionists and that’s antisemitic. By refering to Zionists as Jews you are doing exactly what the settler colonial entity of Israel wants, a way to legitimize them.
You can argue all you want about the semantics of who is or isn’t semitic, but that ignores how historically the word antisemitism have been used to talk specifically about hate for Jews.
Also, accusing someone who is correcting you of being pro genocide is disgusting, no one in this comment chain did this.
That’s an extremely bad faith argument.
If this single person stopped paying taxes, the US would still be funding the genocide.
Besides, their taxes don’t fund shit. The US government literally prints money at will and funds whatever it wants.
zionazis down 
The bridge thing is just the one that’s mostly known about and for good reason. He was a Swedish guy playing PUBG on the internet, there was no conceivable way in that situation that he should have thought of the N word nor outright said it, specially with a hard r.
I don’t know about his current content and honestly I don’t care, I used to watch him when I was young and naive. What I know is that recently, I believe a couple months ago, he did a video praising Mishima again, so that’s a pretty big indicative to me that he is still the same person or at least still hold the same beliefs.
Unless he comes out denouncing all the shit and harm he has caused and makes a genuine effort to stray away from that, I won’t hold a candle to him. The only other youtuber/influencer like him that I know that actually did that is iDubbbz.
If you want to know more about Mishima himself, the relationship of his image with the alt right, and why it is relevant for knowing about PewDiePie’s political beliefs, there’s this article in the Jacobin about it.
I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.
I never seen any research on that, but I hope there is. I’ll take a wild guess and say that it’s probably linked to both, the way internet changed how we interact with people, and the hyper-individualization of capitalism.
And thanks for the link to the essay comrade, I’ll certainly read it!
I’m glad to be able to inform!
Like the comments above, they’re seeing what looks like a petty morality crusade years after a guy who makes stupid videos let a bad word slip, which, yeah, looks ridiculous out of context.
Yep, but there is also a weird parasocial relationship a lot of people have with him where everything wrong he does is just an oopsie, to the point where even when someone has the full context of what I mentioned, a lot of people can’t seem to add 1 + 1 and come to the conclusion that it isn’t just a bunch of mistakes, but rather who he is as a person. The pattern of repetition with him is always muffled by the constant barrage of people that will not hold him accountable, if you visit Reddit right now you will see just that on every Linux related sub.
It’s also a very chicken-or-egg question I think. I’m genuinely curious: Do internet/podcast/streamer celebrities get their status from already being like this, and signaling the fashy bros club that they’re ready to join the “in group” , or do they get pulled and influenced into that circle because they innocently found success from stupid videos?
It’s honestly both. The algorithm on social media platforms will favor right-wing content for a myriad of reasons, ranging from simply being part of the status quo and/or playing into suppressed prejudice of easily impressionable/influenceable people, all the way to the fact that the right is the one that holds the means to create, publicize and boost this type of content, while the left usually do not have the resources needed to do so, you can look at Prager U in the US for example, or think-tanks like Brasil Paralelo here in Brasil, where they will create a lot of very right-wing content and push it hard into the masses, usually buying a shitload of ads that will end up everywhere, included in leftist content on YouTube for example.
The Internet used to be about cats and gaming used to be a hobby divorced from political office except when someone tried to argue they “cause violence” every few years.
Yeah, the monopolization of the internet sucks, hopefully it’s not impossible to revert that. Federated social media like Lemmy here (yay!) is a good step to that, but I hope more and more people will just create websites for their interests.
I’ll disagree on the gaming point tho, gaming, like every media has always been political, it’s just that now-a-days there is a large portion of reactionary content in the pop culture and gaming communities where everything is “woke” and whatnot. And even when the content of the game might not have been political by themselves, like Tetris for example, the conditions surrounding its inception and distribution certainly were.
There is also the issue with gaming journalism, where it ends up being just a corp controlled ad for the games rather than being actual critic of the media being played. It’s like a dystopian version of cinema where the content and the message doesn’t matter, only that you help sell it to maintain your brand on the good side of these gigantic publishers.
Except PewDiePie is not that. Sure he apologized for saying the N word hard-r. But then proceeded to create a whole racist campaign against India in the name of fighting the corpo T-Series where he made one of the most racist songs I’ve ever heard.
Then there’s the whole antisemitic Fiverr thing where if he genuinely did it to prove that any heinous shit could happen there, he still didn’t need to do it that way.
Then there’s Musk and Shapiro in his channel.
Then there’s the Nazis in his audience.
Then you have the bunch of incel and machist memes he reacted and laughed too constantly in his channel.
Then you have that he has gone on record saying more than once that his favorite author is the Japanese fascist Yukio Mishima.
And to top it all off you have the Christchurch shooter shouting him out.
PewDiePie has been a right wing fucker that has eased a shit ton of young people into the alt-right pipeline for years. The fact that people keep excusing him is just fucked up to no end.
Watch the video The PewDiePiepeline on YouTube.
EDIT: I just realized feddit blocks both Lemmygrad and Hexbear, so this user cannot see my comment. If anyone wants to use/copy my comment or link directly to it, feel free to do so, I believe I provided enough evidence to debunk most of this user’s sourceless claims. It’s a shame some instances just block us and shows who they truly are.
E: any of you downvoters, feel free to correct me, I’d love to be wrong.
You throw a bunch of claims with zero source and wants to be taken seriously. At least give us the bare minimum before just spewing this much US State Department propaganda.
That being said, I will address some of your points, since someone else might stumble upon this and need an actual answer.
They don’t have CCP officials required by law to work at tech companies and disclose any and all data they acquire?
Keeping a close look on the companies on their country and keeping them on a short leash is good actually. China is not a capitalist hellhole like the US or most of the world, it is a socialist state where the rich does not control the government. Keeping them in check is the right thing to do given their current development level of socialism.
They’re not using Uyghur slaves in their factories?
That’s a new one, so far I have only heard about how they are being genocided. Which you can debunk with a little bit of research: Arab League’s visit to Xinjiang rejects Western accusations of ethnic genocide, religious persecution.
They’re not trying to literally erase Taiwan off the maps?
LMAO, no. Taiwan is part of China, why would China want to erase part of itself off the map? Even the US agrees. The only thing China wants is proper reunification with Taiwan.
They’re not still censoring information about their horrific pasts?
What “horrific past”? Be specific, this vague stance achieves nothing. If you’re talking about Tiananmen Square, here’s a good video about that: The Tiananmen Square “Massacre” Never Happened.
They’re not targeting, retaliating against and kidnapping protestors domestic and abroad?
Again, provide a damn source, I have no idea of what you’re talking about and it is something I never saw anyone claim before.
What I can do tho is bring into attention the names of a few people like Huey P. Newton being killed by the US government and Snowden having to seek asylum abroad after blowing the whistle on the US surveillance state for the world to see. And if that’s not enough, how about Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with US police on second night of DNC and New Report Details How Pro-Palestinian Protests Are Suppressed in Democratic Countries.
They’re not censoring virtually every US social website entirely from the entire country?
No they are not, Microsoft operates in China. Not only that, but they do not explicitly want to simply ban US sites on there, it’s a simple matter of national sovereignty where companies like Facebook and Google refuse to abide by Chinese law, so China simply developed all their tools in-house. Not only that, but Chinese citizens have access to VPNs and can easily access websites abroad that are not usually allowed in China.
Meanwhile the US banned Huawei and tried to ban TikTok when it became apparent they could not control it and that the people were seeing the US for what it truly is, a genocidal state funding Israel in it’s attempt to genocide the Palestinian people.
The last link I posted is a proxy on 12ft.io since The Intercept won’t allow to see the page without registering.
It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil.
Ignoring? I literally addressed that in my previous comment. I’m not gonna repeat myself. And I’m not saying westerners are evil. As much as I hate using these moral terms like good, bad and evil, if I were to use it it would be to say that the west is evil, not the westerners.
Clean, meaning morally, no he isn’t. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he’s a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn’t still be in power if this were the case.
Yeah yeah, keep changing the meaning of words to only fit how you see it on your head. And really? He’s still in power because he presents himself as “clean and kind”? Like, really? First you say he’s a dictator, now he’s only still in power because se presents himself well. Which one is it? And that aside, do you really believe he’s only in power because he presents himself well? Like, really?
The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it.
A single meme is not representative of the will of the Chinese people. By this logic I can say the USians are nazi because of how much Pepe exploded in popularity. It’s beyond silly.
It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn’t handle it.
First of all, Winnie the Pooh was never banned in China, it is still a very popular character there.
Second of all, you lack understanding of how Chinese society works. China, and some other asian countries do not simply speak ill of their leaders and representatives. It’s a cultural thing. Which is not to say that they don’t criticize them, they do, but it is completely different than the rest of the world.
And finally third, if people started representing Obama with the image of a gorilla, let’s say, from Tarzan. Wouldn’t that be racist? Wouldn’t that be censored and ban worth in most places? So stop with the double standard bullshit. Just realize you’re racist against asians and do some introspection.
For everything else you said I already have replied previously.
You’re incredibly unserious and I’m not losing my time engaging with you any further.
Prove it? Sure. It’s a system where the singular ruling party controls elections and all candidates must be approved by them. If that’s not a dictatorship then I’ve never heard of one.
A single party system is not inherently undemocratic, we communists believe in democratic centralism. The CPC is the dominant party in China, but there are multiple other parties in the country.
You can argue it provides utility or stability or something if you want, but arguing it isn’t a dictatorship shows how ignorant you are. Of course it’s exactly what I’d expect though.
No, it shows how ignorant YOU are, since you clearly don’t even understand how different political systems can be democratic. Your vision of democracy is limited and is easily dismantled by showing how in the US, for example, you have basically a two-party system that at the end of the day serves the same purpose, to continue to impose the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie upon the working class, or how you libs call it, “western democracy”. Your lack of class analysis in China’s system fails to account for how the CPC represents the proletariat instead of the bourgeoisie and how that completely changes the inner functions of said country and society.
I don’t know how the west doing anything bad is relevant to this conversation. It was never part of the discussion and is purely a red-herring to distract from your bad faith argument.
You can’t be serious, right? You can’t simply point fingers at a country with a bunch of false claims and not expect a direct comparison with how the rest of the world does stuff to dismantle the argument. The implication in this discussion is that China and the CPC is a bad evil dictatorship that oppresses people and curbs their freedom of speech. By pointing out how the west does things I’m providing a counter argument of the false claims. You can’t simply claim a bunch of stuff in a vacuum without directly comparing with how the it in the rest of the world, it’s disingenuous. Do you not understand how arguments work?
Also, once again, the Pooh Bear thing is from China. It isn’t racist. It has nothing to do with race. Prove it is, since you’re asking for proof of basic stuff we all know.
Oh stop playing dumb. You know very well that it is racist to associate a Chinese person with a yellow character. Also, it doesn’t matter where it comes from. Pepe and the Ok sign didn’t start as hate symbols, both were turned into one. If you can’t see how westerners constantly calling and depicting Xi Jinping as Pooh isn’t racist, then you’re the racist.
It’s making fun of him being fat and the way he presents himself as clean and kind.
Oh so according to you it’s not racist, it’s just fatphobic AND racist since by saying he “presents clean and kind” you’re implying he is neither of those things. Definitely not racist to imply that a Chinese person is unclean and unkind. Fuck off.
Criticizing or making fun of a nations leader is not racist. In fact, the comparison originates from China.
Then go ahead, actually criticize Xi instead of associating him with a yellow bear, which is definitely not racist, no no no, not racist at all.
You’ll just go back to your echo chamber where anything critical of dictators is bad and must come from the west. They’ll probably agree with you, despite it being incredibly easy to learn more.
LMAO, then fucking prove China is a “dictatorship”. You libs keep repeating the same “China bad”, EBIL SEESEEPEE with zero self awareness of how the west is actually looting, underdeveloping and actively destroying the rest of the world.
Not sure why you were downvoted, you are correct. You can’t even say “Winnie the Pooh”.
Censoring westerners that keep being racist is good actually.
NetEase is the developer of Marvel Rivals. They are a huge Chinese based company, they have ties to the CCP.
The CPC keeps a close eye on the companies in China. This is not a bad thing like you are framing. If you wanna point out to a real problematic case then point at Call Of Duty for being a military propaganda tool.
Oh fuck off. It’s the PCO person again with the bullshit muh freeze peach. Stop being a reactionary for 5 minutes, will you?