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Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year
(www.nbcnews.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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It's always the platform and never the people using the platform.
Go into a left wing chat, you might get radicalized to the left.
Go into a right wing chat, and you might get radicalized to the right.
Discord, afaik, does not even have any kind of algorithmic sorting/recommendation system to even allude to possible skewing by the developer toward a certain point of view. It's just the other people you are hanging out with and exposed to.
I'm just interested what an individual radicalised towards the left would look like. The current American administration thinks that anyone who isn't them is radically left but what does radically been left really involve?
They love you too much and squeeze you to death when giving hugs, like Lenny from Of Mice & Men.
As long as it isn't the systemic living and working condition then we can just shutdown this so-called "discord" and maybe replace it with "harmony".