The algorithms often serve that stuff up to people who aren't far right if they engage with it. And that includes comments disputing the comments made in the videos or arguing.
The algorithm doesn't care about your beliefs. It just cares about what gets you emotionally involved enough to engage.
You should know the vast majority of leftists do not believe in achieving goals with violence. If you want to stir some shit up, go to more right leaning places.
If this is such a systemic problem that it alters elections, the problem is with the system.
The individuals are doing a risk/benefit assessment at a micro level. It is more damaging for them to have a conservative government than it is for them to have a liberal government and that may weigh more to them than the incredibly slim possibility of having an ndp government.
You cant penalize people for picking what is in their best interest. And they can still be pissed off that the best choice they had still led to a shitty outcome.
If you want something different, the system needs to change.
You need to be a bit of an asshole to stand up against assholes. Nice people dont want to be assholes and bend over backwards to make concessions and accommodations.
How dare you not think of every single edge case and exception and explicitly call it out in an appendix?? I expect better of lemmy