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  • Traditional media hasn't been relevant in a while. Everybody gets their news from social media. A space that the left abandoned and refuses to use.

    So when I look around at all the leftist angry about the Republicans winning I get angry. I get angry at all these leftist so loud about punching a Nazi but can't bother to do some basic maintenance. As if they're going to muster up the energy to punch anything when they didn't have the energy to do the most basic form of engagement from the comfort of their own bedroom

    • Traditional media hasn't been relevant in a while. Everybody gets their news from social media.

      Agree to disagree. I think It's generational. Every boomer I know, even the liberals, absolutely watches the news on their TV. The more right wing people usually listen to talk radio. Traditional media is less relevant among the younger generations but the younger generations still lean left.

      they didn't have the energy to do the most basic form of engagement from the comfort of their own bedroom

      Wait wait wait. Are you saying that average people dropped the ball on using social media to spread leftist values?

      1. Nontraditional media is what is affecting so many minds and what is being shared on social media. Joe Rogan, OANN, Daily Wire, and all that garbage. Just another form of the same bullshit. Money-grubbing assholes chasing ratings/views willing to use whatever is most effective... and often funded by rich conservatives who only fund right leaning influencers.
      2. Reddit and Lemmy and all this shit is social media - it's just not where most of the right wingers are. Are you telling me the left is underrepresented on these forums? It's pretty clear that we're here in number.
      3. Social media is so effective at radicalizing people because it's an echo chamber. Are you suggesting the left should embrace the fucking right wing rabbit hole so that we can better reach radicalized people on social media? We don't control the algorithm, the new tech oligarchy that controls social media does that.

      I'm not active outside this place and you couldn't get me to touch Facebook. Their algorithms, representing their interests, are what fucked social media. I deleted my account a while ago because Meta isn't getting my engagement or my ad revenue.

      It sounds like you want us to fund fascist enablers and engage right wing rabbit holes in order to reach a minority of younger right wingers that have been sectioned off into their own echo chambers. Yeah, not fucking happening. That's some energy vampire shit and abso-fucking-lutely not "the most basic form of engagement".

      • The left’s retreating from social media is one of the biggest self owns. This retreat is one of the largest contributors to why the right is winning. Every time progressives “take the high road” by disengaging, they hand votes and power the right.

        Joe Rogan isn’t massive just because he’s Joe Rogan he’s massive because the right knew how to turn manipulate the left into attacking him and turn that into a recruitment drive. Outrage didn’t end his reach it supercharged it.

        Compare that to Brendan Schaub or Opie & Anthony on Reddit: they were turned into lolcows, and no amount of right-wing backup could save them. That’s what should’ve happened with Rogan.

        Instead, the retreat handed Trump a propaganda channel, which paved the way for others like Theo and Tony to push right-wing framing on COVID, vaccines, and more. Acting like we’re “too virtuous” to engage isn’t a moral victory it’s a fucking disaster. We need to own it otherwise it'll keep occurring.

        This isn’t an isolated case it’s the same playbook, over and over. For years, bot accounts pushed “don’t wrestle with pigs” to convince the left to stop engaging, and people fell for it.

        It’s like watching someone play Risk by giving up every territory except one, then wondering why they’re losing but hey, at least they still have the moral high ground, right?

        • You aren't addressing my points, you are repeating your own points.

          You're talking about "alternative media" and not social media.

          Who is it that you are blaming? The leftist population, democratic leadership, left leaning influencers?

          Are you expecting people to dig into the right wing rabbit hole of social media just to combat it's effectiveness? What are you actually suggesting?

          I agree that some folks like Rogan & Theo should have representatives from the left engaging with them. Unfortunately, there aren't many public faces on the left. I also can't pretend to know who those guys are willing to even have on. They had some Democrats, Bernie and I think Pete (corporate Democrat but at least willing to consider some leftist policies), maybe others - I don't watch their shows.

          Joe Rogan isn’t massive just because he’s Joe Rogan he’s massive because the right knew how to turn manipulate the left into attacking him and turn that into a recruitment drive.

          Can you differentiate "attacking him" and turning him into a "lolcow"?

          Joe Rogan is massive because he's a well known MMA personality with comic friends that is fantastic at chilling will famous people and shooting the shit without any actual deep thought. He's leaned right because, again, it's where the money is.

          Please respond to my previous points, and consider these things:

          every time progressives “take the high road” by disengaging, they hand votes and power the right.

          What would engaging look like?

          Acting like we’re “too virtuous” to engage isn’t a moral victory it’s a fucking disaster. We need to own it otherwise it'll keep occurring.

          Again, what does not disengaging look like?

          • You said yourself 'there aren't many voices on the left' and what pisses me off is that it is as if you stop short there.

            Why are there no voices on the left?

            Why are there more voices on the right?

            This lack of reflection is what bothers me so much because my opinion is when we reflect we all have no choice but to be fucking pissed off at the answer. The answer is the people who identify as leftist are fucking useless. It's all hot air. It's all platitudes and performance.

            Attacking someone is different. People didn't attack Schaub. The goal wasn't to hurt them directly. The community goal was to have a laugh at the expense of these lolcows. That community grew to the point that it had so much reach and engagement that people were seeing schuabism pop off everywhere. It wasn't about coming online to say "fuck Schaub he's such a piece of shit asshole". Instead it was about laughing at Schaub because people were digging and finding clips and content of him pissing in sinks, cam footage from clubs of him cheating on his wife, going bankrupt.

            It's what frustrates me so much about the left in general. They tend to think the attack is all that matters, call em a Nazi and upvote. But reality is that need to change. They need the approach like the o&a community had or fighter and the kid. It's what keeps people watching and when people watch they get more content. That content can be used to grow communities which create engagement and capture. It's what should be done with all this man sphere right wing comedy bullshit. It's crazy to think of all the material there is to make fun of these idiots. And when that happens you hobble their ability to use them because nobody wants you listen to a fucking lolcow no matter what they say.

            There are not many voices on the left because we lack engagement. We don't have networks. We don't share information the way the right does. It's about capture. We don't direct our attention towards voices and therefore there's no money in it. If there's no voices there's no chance of winning anything in the near future. The only way to win would be for the right to fuck up. Which isn't a win.

            I'll challenge this to you. There's clips of Marc Maron shitting on Rogan. Where do I post that here on Lemmy?

            Not having a good place to post something like that is a serious problem.

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