Tbh InfoWars had some potential for radicalizing people when it was oriented against Bush II, the War on Terror, NSA spying, and so on. But that was long ago, before it made a very clear break towards being nothing but a reactionary pipeline.
They went from "they're turning this country into a police state" to "actually we need to police brown people more".
It seemed pretty standard libertarian-spectrum to me back then (well over a decade ago), but maybe that was me not noticing the overlapping white nationalists or maybe they were deliberately less forthcoming.
Tbh InfoWars had some potential for radicalizing people when it was oriented against Bush II, the War on Terror, NSA spying, and so on. But that was long ago, before it made a very clear break towards being nothing but a reactionary pipeline.
They went from "they're turning this country into a police state" to "actually we need to police brown people more".
:downbear: Infowars has never had potential, it's always been aligned with those Rockies white nationalist militia types.
It seemed pretty standard libertarian-spectrum to me back then (well over a decade ago), but maybe that was me not noticing the overlapping white nationalists or maybe they were deliberately less forthcoming.