The 'controversial' video in question is an interview Chris Hedges did with Aaron Maté - so, between two award-winning journalists (Hedges was awarded a Pulitzer, Maté an Izzy Award, specifically for his reporting on 'Russiagate') - whose collective journalistic weight dwarfs Maddow's 'Alex-Jones-of-the-Left conspiracy theories', by several orders of magnitude. The idea that YouTube should not be recommending this kind of high-caliber discussion, 'because Russians', is simplistic and reactionary.
Maté, understandably, took issue with this mischaracterization. In response he provided a "thread offering a sample of the falsehoods, innuendo, and propaganda that [Maddow] has aired on her top-rated cable news show". Strap in, this is epic.
Here's the thread unrolled via Thread Reader.
"Deliberate trafficking in unreality" is exactly right. If anyone ever needed any evidence that Maddow is little more than a rabid liar, obsessed with non-existent 'Russian interference' and pushing propaganda on her equally delusional fan base, this is it. As journalist Michael Tracey said, "If the YouTube algorithm should be criticized for promoting anybody, it's Rachel Maddow, given the many provable lies and deceptions she's fed her audience." Why anyone still listens to this woman is truly one of the mysteries of our times.
Is there any doubt that Maddow's hysteria was catalyzed primarily through the lens of her experience as a gay woman? Few other high profile talking heads on the Left went quite that spectacularly barmy. She was primed and ready to go the extra crazy mile exactly because she was packing extra emotional baggage. Facing one's errors and fears is already hard enough.
I remember thinking, back during that Pussy Riot hysteria during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, "Damn! Some bright spark in some psyops division is getting high marks for cooking up that ploy! A rising star! Keep your eye on that one!"
Though, as the drama unfolded over the next four years, it appears that it may be a standard programming chore; probably used on many more worlds than just ours when the time comes to land your troops in the soul invasion. Step 5 or 6 in setting up your global conquest DIY kit. "Do NOT insert tab A into slot B."
Sex, after all, is designed to ignite all the core emotional thunder toward forced learning. It's easy to avoid facing the tics and snags in your dirty machine; you can just walk away if somebody triggers your bullshit. But when you're dragged along by the mighty desire to love and fuck and cuddle and not be alone.., gay or straight, you wind up bonded to a person who will be one of your greatest teachers in life! Running away from hard lessons becomes much more difficult when you are in love. What a great system!
So of course the Dark Side is going to gleefully pervert and sabotage this sacred tree in the soul forest and turn it into an infernal engine to serve nihilism.
Not weaponizing it would be foolish. -From an evil empire perspective.
How are you going to activate the Rachel Maddows of the world otherwise? People like her are too smart and wily to bring down by anything other than the nuclear option of emotional levers.