The Online Left is Cooked

This has actually always been my main issue with political content online. There is a focus on entertainment and pithiness that means the message needs to be presented in a way that may not actually ultimately be productive. Like yea, we definitely have conversations we otherwise wouldn’t have had but it stokes resentment so much more often.

Communication and the ability to do it well is actually incredibly essential to coalition building. Mosquito Dorito could have made the same argument and many of us would have been on his side. But instead he fixated on content and in the process made or very clear that at his core, he is only in very superficial community with black people but ultimately assumes they aren’t intelligent or politically involved enough to already understand certain things. There as no real take away from what he said, but a lot of people were entertained.

This didn't age well. She's courting Dick Cheney and far right Republicans

The elites have us blackmailed with voting for a less racist fascist party or the straight up neo-nazis party (if you hate the same people as the nazis, then you are a nazi). I really don't want to ever vote for democrat again but I really don't want the neo-nazis to win either.

leftism is a toxic fandom 🥲

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You might like Patience Xina's videos about the problems with allies.

You're getting sucked into pragmatism. You do your thing, after her speech about the US staying as the biggest and baddest empire on earth, I can't in good faith (as someone from an unofficial US colony) be supportive of her mandate. This whole debate is asinine. Yes, she's to the left of Biden, he's to the left of Bush, he's to the left of Trump, and he's to the left of Hitler. What they all have in common is they will put their proletariat in the woodchipper in service of capital

And it's not just 'online'. Michigan BSU have left pro-Palestinian organisation TAHRIR because of rampant anti-Blackness.

When Biden chose Harris as a running mate I thought the plan would be for Biden to serve one term while preparing Harris to run in 2024. Just wondering if anyone else thought that. I appreciate the cogent thoughtful insight.

"Do you wanna have progress or do you wanna be correct?", "folks are more interested in style points and pithy comebacks" and "being leftist doesnt stop you being White" are some mfin words! Stuff like this is precisely why I stay off of social media outside of youtube comments. I have had serious issues with people just wanting to be right and wanting to fight for the sake of fighting above all else since 2016 among many other things. I've been largely tapped out for years so I really commend you for maintaining a platform that touches on certain issues in the ways you do. I really love your perspective on this.

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What is it we think the online left ought to be doing?

Was it right wingers or left wingers that just got caught taking all that Russian money? Asking for a friend……