but he is useful insofar as his reach normalizes our politics
Seems like his normalisation of “genocide is bad” is going great. I just don’t buy this pipeline theory at all. It’s something I’ve heard for years. Where are all these countless socialists being pushed out of this pipeline? What are they doing? All the streamers seem to create is more people viewing streams. The pipeline stops at the point of subscription.
A pipeline isn't about creating Lenins or the next Huey Newton, it's about creating politically aware demographics responsive to those people if and when they emerge
It's about creating a fundraising base, an audience that spreads socialist agitprop far and wide, you can look down at that all you want, but that kind of brass tax soil tilling is what is required to generate the lubricant for a socialist movement
Obviously we don't have the hardware, the software, the leadership or the fuel, but goddammit we have the lubricant in abundance and I'd rather have 1/5 ingredients than 0/5
Let me know when they start doing that. These people are radlibs at best.
I guess we’ll just agree to disagree on the efficacy of this pipeline. As an aside, the fact that apparently Americans need ideas that were settled in theory written over a century ago filtered through the prism of slop twitch streamers before they’ll pay attention is an issue in of itself.
Seems like his normalisation of “genocide is bad” is going great. I just don’t buy this pipeline theory at all. It’s something I’ve heard for years. Where are all these countless socialists being pushed out of this pipeline? What are they doing? All the streamers seem to create is more people viewing streams. The pipeline stops at the point of subscription.
A pipeline isn't about creating Lenins or the next Huey Newton, it's about creating politically aware demographics responsive to those people if and when they emerge
It's about creating a fundraising base, an audience that spreads socialist agitprop far and wide, you can look down at that all you want, but that kind of brass tax soil tilling is what is required to generate the lubricant for a socialist movement
Obviously we don't have the hardware, the software, the leadership or the fuel, but goddammit we have the lubricant in abundance and I'd rather have 1/5 ingredients than 0/5
Let me know when they start doing that. These people are radlibs at best.
I guess we’ll just agree to disagree on the efficacy of this pipeline. As an aside, the fact that apparently Americans need ideas that were settled in theory written over a century ago filtered through the prism of slop twitch streamers before they’ll pay attention is an issue in of itself.