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"You're really reaching with this internet nazi point here. These people were dormant for most of the modern internet's history until about after 2012 when these things began to take off. The internet is hardly the smoking gun for all this. Again, you have the internet to thank for indymedia back when it was relevant and it also played a role in the occupy movement which was arguably the last hurrah from the 1968 radical deep meme structure before the rise of left and right IDPol. You are neglecting the role that 3rd way capitalism and 3rd worldist IDPol ideology and the collapse of countercultural leftist ideology has played a role in the rise of the countercultural right. The internet is simply not the deciding factor."

I never said or implied the internet wasn't being used by the left. So stop fucking harping on that, or take your meds. I am saying the internet has also facilitated the right, and to a far greater degree, because the right has more money to leverage the internet with than the left. That's just a fact. It makes the far right able to have more influence on social media. Just take youtube as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtHNmV-Wtbs

"You are neglecting the role that 3rd way capitalism and 3rd worldist IDPol ideology and the collapse of countercultural leftist ideology has played a role in the rise of the countercultural right. The internet is simply not the deciding factor."

The collapse of leftist counterculture happened in the 1980s under Reaganism. The spread of ultra conservatism eventually morphed into the alt-right as many in the far right became dissatisfied with normal mainstream conservatism which had basically won almost all of its economic goals during the 1970s to 1990s by dismantling the welfare state. In the 2000's, conservatism was attracting young fresh ideologues who wanted to push the movement even further to the right. They were looking for new territories to conquer, namely the cultural sphere (i.e. racism, immigration, etc). The Tea Party grew out of the response to Obama's election, however that was a boots-on-the-ground protest movement. The right hadn't yet embraced the internet. That's where Breitbart came in, and Breitbart was an online only right-wing news feed. Around the same time Richard Spencer started his Alternative Right website. 4Chan also became infiltrated with Nazis during this period. What all this synchronicity and confluence of emerging trends had in common was the internet.

To say the internet was somehow not the deciding factor is just nonsense.

I also never said the left has no money, I said they have less money than the right. But go on, keep ignoring what I actually say. And since when is Soros or Greta 'left'? They are liberals.