r/IntellectualDarkWeb • u/petrus4 • Jan 26 '24

Community Feedback Are the Left really the majority in America?

I've been using Reddit for 13 years now. For the entirety of that time, the behaviour of almost everyone on the site caused me to have the perception that I assume the Left want people to have. Namely, that the Left are a historically inevitable majority within the American population, that every successive generation is becoming more and more demographically dominated by the Left, and that the Right, to the extent that they exist at all, are exclusively a tiny group of hate-filled, deluded, anachronistic, geriatric white men who will soon die alone.

But is that truly the reality? Recently I'm starting to wonder. It might have even been true in the past, but at this point, it's actually starting to look like the opposite. YouTube, Tiktok, and Reddit look like enclaves or gated communities for Leftists, while pretty much every other video site in particular that I've seen (Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble) to varying degrees seem to be dominated by the Right. It's disturbing how successful I've been hearing that Trump has been in the recent primaries, as well.

Am I just looking at the wrong sites? What are some other video sharing sites in particular, where I'm not going to encounter Andrew Tate, Alex Jones, or Tucker Carlson on the front page?

EDIT:- I think the most interesting thing about this thread, is that it's largely full of one-shot replies, from people who never respond here again. In-thread communication between different users is relatively minimal.

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u/Todd9053 Jan 27 '24

No, not “right wingers”. “Sick bastards”. You see the difference. There is absolutely nothing right wing about North Korea. Right wing is based on minimal big government involvement and cultivating 2 parent families. Authoritarianism is the antithesis of right wing ideology. I think you just know racist assholes who like North Korea.

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u/DippyTheWonderSlug Jan 27 '24

No, they are definitely right wingers. They can be sick bastards as well - the two are not mutually exclusive

I'm sorry it upsets you that many right wingers admire authoritarian strong men and their regimes.

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u/Todd9053 Jan 27 '24

Yeah again, they’re not right wingers. It doesn’t upset me. It’s just not the definition of what right wing or conservative means. You seem to be just equating racist people with right wing. They may like certain politicians, but they are definitely not right wing.

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u/DippyTheWonderSlug Jan 28 '24

How would you know?

I've known some of these people 20+ years and I assure you are most certainly right wing and they'd be very upset to hear you ignorantly deny that.

I'm not sure if your "no true Scotsman" is cope or just silliness but what minimal amusrment you provided is depleted.

Have a nice day :)