"Statistically 0.0%, better include it" despite most of those kinds of posts getting deleted by mods or done by fedposting wreckers
Edit: like fuck it, include all the shit that gets deleted by twitter or facebook automods and you'd see a deluge of misanthropy that would wash away your hope in humanity
I think we should invite Mr. Richard Lee Rogers from the Youngstown State University Dept. of Criminal Justice & Consumer Sciences to go on Hexbear and do some kind of reverse AMA. He seems like he really needs some political education.
Published by a Mr. Dick Rogers.
What is this? Some right-wing think tank BS?
Extremist = anything that isn't normal politics
Yeah, real solid metric to have there pal. It's not like that is completely subjective or anything, considering Nazi politics are considered normal for a lot of people.
Extremism is when you are anything other than ambivalent about the collapse of the biosphere
Nah, just a chump professor who's published more than he has citations
These are rookie numbers, gotta pump em up.
LMAO No way
here's the newest one: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369649460_Frames_of_Misinformation_Extremism_and_Conspiracism_January_2023
figure 7 looks a lot different now lmao :hexbear-shining:
Just two relevant points:
1- They crawled another 2.5k posts since last time.
2- The recent topics stayed the same except Sex crimes was replaced with Socialism + FBI. I'm not even joking its chart 15. Real smooth Richard you fuck, you are fooling nobody rofl.
Look ma, I’m on TV!
that is so funny, like imagine having to explain this site on a academic setting just because you want to be fair and balanced centrist and say oh but the left wing extremists, like look at your definitions man:
Extremism: Political beliefs and strategies that fall outside the spectrum of normal politics (Anti-Defamation League, 2017).
•Extreme Right includes antisemitic and Christian Identity forums, neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, secessionists, and White pride groups.
•Extreme Left includes anarchist and socialist forums.
anyway if you came over here after a richard lecture, could you ask him for to do an Q&A here i would absolutelly love to learn what is actually the thesis he is doing as this seems to be only aggregated data which he would use on a follow up, also i would like to talk about the numbers on reddit, which we were expelled from, and if the right wing super group got more space there after we got kicked , RICHARD HIT US UP DUDE LET'S TALK
Extremism: Political beliefs and strategies that fall outside the spectrum of normal politics
Wow, great definition. Very explanatory. "Normal politics" is a very well-defined term.
(Anti-Defamation League, 2017).
Aren't they the same people who claims that it's antisemitic not to believe that Zionists have a right to an ethnostate in Palestine?
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I’ve been looking through the resources on his site but can’t find the list of keywords he uses for this site. Anyone more familiar with computational statistics wanna give it a go?
It's probably some incredibly dumb shit like looking for things like "die, dies, dying, kill, kills, killed," which would also explain why antivaxxers are so very elevated if it's reading shit like "fluoridated water KILLS!" and marking that as "violent" when it's just unhinged boomer brain shit.
That would also mean that a comment like "kicking people out of their homes is an act of violence, it is attempted murder and it kills and immiserates people," would read as more violent (because keywords) than someone explicitly calling for minorities to be genocided in short or even slightly obfuscated language. Discussing violence that has happened probably scans exactly the same as direct calls for violence.
Hell, this dispassionate explanation of their reasoning will probably have the algorithm in full :wojak-nooo: : :agony-shivering: :doomjak: mode because of all the keywords.
Yeah, unless they explicitly look for fascist language, a fascist saying "day of the rope now" doesn't show up as violence on whatever algorithm they use
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Those graphics make no fucking sense for fuck sakes
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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