Do they? I’ve seen the headlines but do they really?

Every few years it seems like they are circling the same drain as everyone else.

Protests where we all just gather and walk around aren’t effective. You need to be proactive and anticipatory. We saw it with George Floyd protests. There’s no win. Either people will show up and go home. Or, the protests will grow to a point that it becomes out of control. When it’s out of control then the police salivate and pull out their black book training manual for how to beat hippies and they get to work. Just as a farmer leads his cows to slaughter. The police have solved the protestor problem. You will not win. Tactics need to adapt

You think those people aren’t online?

This is exactly my point. You’re proving it. The left have no idea what they’re doing. This is why the right are winning. They aren’t wasting their effort and time. They’re targeting key areas using modern techniques and even inventing their own. The left are so hell bent on this romanticized ideals of the hippie putting flowers into barrels that they haven’t progressed at all. It has cost so much and will continue to lead us into obscurity or worse.

I’ll tell you what, let’s come back in a couple weeks and see what these protests accomplished

A very sad thing is that it’s a protest. Even if it was reported on what would happen? What is the result of any of this?

Now imagine all those people went online and just created and shared content. Imagine all those people creating 5 things a week. They countered every bullshit on YouTube. If they countered every ounce of bullshit on Reddit. If they fucked with the algorithm by calling out the Rogan sphere and other podcasters making them look like the dumb asses they are. If they just culture jammed the fuck out of this broken fucking culture. But they don’t.

They drive 2 hrs to stand in the cold hoping a media that doesn’t listen will spread a message. I bet the protestors are not very clear on what the expected result is here either. Most probably seen that someone asked them to show up and they did. They’re willing to do the work but in my opinion, it’s directed into an energy sink with minimal reward. I think we can do better with understanding how content is king. How this is about culture and message and ideas rather than old school methods like protest in the streetds. People can laugh all they want thinking online content is just stupid jokes. It is. But also it’s culture and this is about culture.

When Republicans and Russia wanted to change our culture to favor the right wing they didn’t invest millions into protests. They hired influencers and created networks. They paid college kids to make memes. They ran bot farms to flood spaces with comments that dismissed opinions that didn’t favor their view. Money and power were directed to dumb assholes that could get more people on brand. Joe Rogan went from being a dumb comedian to a platform to introducing people to those networks. And it branched out from there. It was strategic. All I’m saying is we all should think more systematically and strategically. Protests have a use case. I’m not sure how effective it is in a digital world. Protests should evolve I think.

Most of the top feed I see is against AI

You too

And did I do anything

Was yours? Commenting online isn’t exactly fighting the good fight. Did you do anything to help shore up and defend anything.

These companies face legal action from the government that was elected. A government elected who won power by spreading their shitty ideology everywhere.

I’m with you on the “they’re not Nazi thing”

I think Lemmy is being a space for targeted radicalization for certain groups.

But still I think you’re wrong that we can separate technology from this political stuff right now. It’s not separate. Technology is the medium that groups are using to spread this stuff. It’s important and interesting to see how they’re doing it.

Content should focus on the tech side of it. And also why be angry at the side that’s just trying to protect their freedoms here. If it wasn’t for the people trying to limit their freedoms, we’d never hear of this stuff.

The issue isn’t people trying to identify as another gender. It’s the people saying no they can’t and then abusing their power and influence to do it.

Can’t wait to passively observe this so go down.

No, I think this is it. This is the media doing what media does

Oh I get it. So this stuff gets pushed on left wing spaces. Then the left wing adopts this ethos where they say “pedo hunters aren’t good” then the right goes “oh you’re all pedophiles” and then the divide is bigger