i feel like the problem with bsky and the entire Left Liberal Discourse Bubble is that like. 80% of the people on there are ideologically coherent in the way that the actual average person is not, and are therefore Stunned and Appalled whenever there's an effect like:
the average, busy, stressed, somewhat low-information but well meaning person, sees a solid 3 years of unchecked, horrific carnage in gaza and lebanon and iran. they go "oh shit, what do the mainstream semi-liberal outlets i follow have to say about this? this is awful, they must be as sad as me, right?"
however, the Respectable News Channels are the new york war crimes, and the cnn jake tapper and dana bash islamophobia hour. haha. this erodes any trust in them. seeing an opening for views, right wing opportunists move in, like piers morgan or candace owens or whoever else, and platform anti-war voices in the way the mainstream is not willing to.
therefore, for someone who is being obviously gaslit and lied to about stuff they can see with their own eyes, this looks like a shining light of rationality in a sea of obvious propaganda, and they'll drift towards these alternatives.
now you might say: but they're insane racist conspiracy theorists, how could anyone overlook that!?! well. they're reasonably charming, and they have a message that currently appeals to people more than the other, very blatantly israel-bootlicking channels. so no one who slides in on low information is actually going to shift away from them unless an alternative is provided. which no one is providing, bc none of the smaller, legitimately factual and humane information outlets get any money. and if they do somehow get any traction, this usually puts them under threat - see also, the incredible bipartisan unity of taking out hasan piker. lmao
anyway, this is ofc a very difficult problem to solve. so it's wayyy easier to simply dunk on Stupid Gullible Sheep for falling for it, instead of trying to figure out a way to prevent that đ
