You know, I think V*ush would be a good entrance into the pipeline if he just stopped attacking people who are lefter than him. But because he constantly does that, he poisons the well and stifles any chance of his audience moving beyond him further down the pipeline. Maybe he isn't an op, but he certainly acts like one.
It's worse than that. Capitalism in online influencers incentivises liberalisation.
The goal of an influencer is growth, audience growth. In order to appeal to the largest possible audience influencers are incentivised to liberalise further and further to appeal to more and more people in the existing hegemony.
All the growth focused influencers fail to realise that they are consistently liberalisng further and further the more they ask themselves the question "what can I do to grow more?".
It's a stretch but you could argue mass movements have to go through a similar path to become popular in a right-wing country. That balance of appealing to a mass base while not watering down the project.
Basically tilting at windmills. A lot of the anarchist subreddits have this same problem where there are more posts about being mad at tankies than capitalism.
You know, I think V*ush would be a good entrance into the pipeline if he just stopped attacking people who are lefter than him. But because he constantly does that, he poisons the well and stifles any chance of his audience moving beyond him further down the pipeline. Maybe he isn't an op, but he certainly acts like one.
Capitalism incentivizes deception.
Why would he tell his customers, "if you like my products, then you'll like this other person's products even more!"
It's worse than that. Capitalism in online influencers incentivises liberalisation.
The goal of an influencer is growth, audience growth. In order to appeal to the largest possible audience influencers are incentivised to liberalise further and further to appeal to more and more people in the existing hegemony.
All the growth focused influencers fail to realise that they are consistently liberalisng further and further the more they ask themselves the question "what can I do to grow more?".
It's a stretch but you could argue mass movements have to go through a similar path to become popular in a right-wing country. That balance of appealing to a mass base while not watering down the project.
I started to get that impression when looking at the comments of his fans. A lot of them complaining about or making fun of “tankies
Basically tilting at windmills. A lot of the anarchist subreddits have this same problem where there are more posts about being mad at tankies than capitalism.