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What's really wild is that people arguing for things like Right-to-Repair would be anywhere near right-wing to begin with.
Like, Louis, you don't see how the entire conservative ideology undermines ideas like right-to-repair? How can you be like "Yeah, I trust these guys who all would shut down the things I'm arguing for," and just be oblivious to it?
Louis's videos are posted to multiple platforms out of principle, not politics... that means they also get posted on sites with creators that have been kicked out of YouTube, like the one linked here
A person of principle wouldn’t post there. Simple. It walks, quacks and shits like a duck.
My principle is I don't hang out in fucking Nazi spaces.
Like, I wouldn't go to a bar that advertised itself as a Nazi bar, and I wouldn't upload my content to a site like this, that has enough Nazis on it that they're in the recommended videos for a fucking Louis Rossman video.
If Louis is happy hanging out at Nazi bars, that's on him and you can hardly hang that on "principles."
And yet the top suggested videos were about how the Crusades were justified and how cop shootings are justified.
I would think if the largest community was programmers, those kind of videos would be suggested, not this shit.
Top suggested videos sadly speaks otherwise about the people on this site.
Because both videos have the word justified in them
Still a shit site that we’ll never hit main stream.
Dude sounds a lot like a libertarian business owner tbh. I wouldn't be surprised if they align very well with the right otherwise.
he has some very dubious takes - he's very correct on how shitty it is to be a consumer but he's completely blind to any systemic analysis of it, willfully I would imagine.
Platforms that offer greater freedom also tend to host visibly more extreme content. My guess is the slightly more advertiser friendly extremism pushed by algorithms on mainstream platforms is far more impactful on society.
Outside of the relatively small number of people engaged with issues like software freedom, privacy, right to repair there is no reason to choose a platform with less views unless your content is banned from the alternatives.
I expect Rossmann's politics are shaped by his experiences as a small business owner. Many such people desire greater economic and individual freedom and are likely economic liberals but that doesn't necessarily influence their views on other matters. He is an outspoken advocate for consumer freedoms including right to repair which I respect. I don't know the guy personally but I would be surprised and disappointed if he endorses far right crazy shit. I am using Lemmy and respect the people who wrote the software but nothing about my politics should be inferred from theirs.