I'm not sure if this is supposed to be posted here but I'm not sure this would be welcome in c/wallstreetbets (lmao) either. It's just sad and dispiriting. Not really gonna say more about this because it's been pretty draining tbh.
Also, before someone says "well I don't think it's WRONG to talk about this, and I don't think it's praxis, and y'know I had to pay rent and spent some money on this and I just like laughing at Melvin eating shit and...." cool, I'm not talking about you, you know which people I am talking about.
I don't see how the online space is fundamentally different to the writing+distribution of newspapers or books of the old world. Anyone that considers those activities to be praxis back then should consider quite a lot of activity in the online space to be praxis today, in particular because social media has more power today than the newspapers today, or in the past for that matter.
That's not to say that the online space should ever be all the praxis anyone does. But this outright dismissal of it is detrimental to the left. It actually astounds me that people continue to so heavily dismiss it after watching the fascists put it to work for their entire movement over the last decade and after qanon literally built a successful cult out of it.
The thing we should be saying is that it cannot be all the praxis that you do. You MUST go outside and organise with organisations in the streets as well.
If you actually understood what Marxists mean by the word "praxis" you'd understand none of this is new or a material "change" to Amerikkkan society