• I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Like the rest of the compatible left they exist to drive attention and engagement into the bourgeois press through their reaction-analysis, feuding over it, generic branded activist news outlets like Democracy Now and tech rights publications which do the same things, in order to make their own living. They are broadly indistinguishable from The Young Turks and influencers posted on Lemhexgrad and the like, they interact with them, use the same journalistic methods with minor variations in style and branding.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      I guess i can't bring myself to dismiss them because they have correct geopolitics, which is never true for the compatible left...

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        I wouldn't necessarily say that they even have correct geopolitics, they sort of get partly correct geopolitics, in the way that some conservatives accidentally get more correct takes on Russia or Palestine.

      • I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        A lot of them don't, though, they exist to subvert and shitcoat the correct stances of countries like Cuba and China and Venezuela. Please don't be mislead by their branding and associations with midwitted posters.

        They definitely have some people who like them who partially relate and don't understand it's a grift.