Definitely agreed that we need to be building in-person networks, but I don’t care for the idea that the right is winning because they’re just more online or that we should surrender that space as a result. Right wingers dominate social media because they have the support of capital up to the point where they get too much public backlash for recruiting children to wear the iron cross or whatever the fuck. We’ve seen it a many times. Left wing sub gets popular on Reddit. Admins coup the mods or manufacture a splitting event. Right wing “moderate” alternatives are promoted. Given a true free market of attention, the left would be doing fine online. But it’s not a free market. It’s an automated propaganda machine that we’re expected to exist within.

I think the ideal would be to tie the physical organizing in with a new form of decentralized social media. Allow cells to form naturally while sharing information. A propaganda machine not controlled by capital.