Blue MAGA may dominate legacy media (which is done by design because it sets the limit to how left-wing you are allowed to be), but the GOP all the way to the most bloodthirsty psychopaths have a monopoly on new media. It is making our youth think violence, hate groups, and nazism is "hip and cool" while tolerance is seen as something for losers.

PragerU, Ben Shapiro, Richard Spencer, Jordan Peterson, Nick Fuentes, /pol/, these people are considered to be omniscient and are among the media icons of milennials and gen z (yes, I know Peterson is much older and PragerU isn't a person), but the problem is these people have won the culture war just telling people what they want to hear. We are outnumbered and as much as I want to challenge these views, I don't think I can reliably do that.

To anyone that has converted a younger hog, how did you manage to do that? I've had speculation that if I was friends with one and had one-on-one chats in let's say an Overwatch team chat or whatever they'd be more likely to listen. Alternatively, we could try to use any burner accounts and subscribe them to any leftist channel on Youtube or Twitter and see if we can skew the algorithm less in the right's favor.

Other than that, I would say that the left could do with better PR and steal some tricks from the right on how to get better publicity. Cherry pick the cringiest MRAs, the most ungrateful landlords, etc.

Idk, I get that this is an unrefined thought, but I don't really have the language to put this in better terms.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Owning the platforms seems like the big key. Otherwise, whenever leftist ideas start getting popular enough, the rules start shifting until they go away.

    Unfortunately a lot of people see this problem then decide to go off chasing decentralization, federation, and other interesting technical problems that are tangentially helpful, instead of focusing on the harder, more important social work. Getting enough people on board to build a cooperative, running enough of a business to feed your workers so they can work on it full time, advertising until people are on the platform. It's all hard, scary stuff.

    (And yes, I am doing something in this space myself, but I can't go into any detail at all, because it's all under my humansona.)

    • KiaKaha [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      running enough of a business to feed your workers so they can work on it full time, advertising until people are on the platform

      Petition for Hexbear to start selling Hexbear Gold and using the revenue to pay for devs and advertising on other platforms.

      If we can stomach China selling to Israel, we can stomach a bit of monetisation, wage labour, and advertising.