This is fucking insane. Unassuming kids are using these services being tricked into believing they're chatting with actual humans. Honestly, i think i want the mom to win the lawsuit now.

Day after day this is looking more like Nazi Germany

Lmaoo, these geezers actually think they took down tachiyomi 🤣

That was the plan

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Exactly. The right dictates the battlefield, and the left obediently marches onto it. We follow like their lapdogs and push back against their own agendas instead of forging ours. This always happens. Instead of setting our own agenda - focusing on worker issues, wages, housing, and healthcare - we keep reacting to right-wing provocations. Now left-wing politics is all about what it's against than what it’s for. The core of our platform should be based on our economic and environmental prospects and policies rather than playing up culture wars that are secondary to the issues at hand.

Whereas, Jordan Petersen and Joe Rogan are talking about how to actualize yourself as a person, the tension between "free speech" and corporate overreach and government censorship, and other things that a lot of people care about

This is a crucial failure on our part. Right-wing influencers make their followers feel empowered - like they’re unlocking hidden truths about the world. Meanwhile, too many left-wing influencers have taken the approach of "my morals are better than yours" rather than educators or motivators. If we want to win, we have to stop lecturing and start leading.

There's also a significant factor that malicious people invest tons of money into promoting the right-wing thought leaders

I agree, but that doesn't mean left-wing populism is doomed. Leftist movements have thrived without major funding because they connected with people’s material concerns. Instead of relying on corporate funding, we should be building mass grassroots networks, leveraging crowdfunding, and focusing on organizing rather than just content creation. There are already people like Bernie Sanders who represent our sentiments on the grander stage, however where are his supporters? They're mute in comparison to the right-wing supporters.

There are already quite a few left-wing content creators and influencers, but they're responsible for the same moral gatekeeping i criticized earlier. We need the Ben Shapiros and the Charlie Kirks of leftism.

Did you watch the video and see how hard it tried to convince him that it was in fact sentient?

I expected pitchforks, but I'm more pleased by this outcome

I was taking a stab at the meta. Although i don't doubt this has happened somewhere

Jon Stewart is one of the few left-wing figures actually making the right arguments (although i haven't seen that specific video), and the fact that he got pushed to the margins for it proves that media conglomerates don’t want real leftist messaging getting mainstream traction. This is why we need independent platforms, community organizing, and alternative funding sources. The right didn’t build their media empire overnight, and neither will we, but we have to start.

get angry phone calls from the super-wealthy people who finance all their campaigns and operations.

This is exactly why corporate-backed liberals love identity politics. It lets them appear progressive without challenging the structures that keep the wealthy in power. A perfect example is how corporations slap rainbow flags on everything in June but continue union-busting, exploiting workers, and funding right-wing politicians behind the scenes. This shit is right in our faces but we're blindsided to see that we're only dancing to the tune of conservatives.

Well he can't now...

Even better

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Define "republic"

I get what you're saying about the right being more unified, but writing them off as dumb is a mistake. The reason their messaging works isn’t just because their audience is less intelligent, it’s because it speaks to their material concerns and fears. The left needs to stop assuming people will just ‘figure it out’ and start actually meeting them where they are.

Yes, the left has more ideological diversity, but that shouldn’t be an excuse for why we keep failing at mass mobilization. The right has factions too - libertarians, religious fundamentalists, corporate elites, working class conservatives - but they manage to unite under a common goal. We need to do the same instead of endlessly debating who is the ‘most correct’ leftist.

Also, the idea that leftists don’t need influencers because they already know who to be mad at is exactly why the left struggles with mass outreach. Working-class people aren’t sitting around reading theory; they need someone to break things down in ways that feel relevant to them (and this is one area where Marxists get things right). Right-wing influencers do this effectively, while many left-wing figures get bogged down in purity politics or academic jargon.

If we really want to win, we have to get better at messaging, outreach, and coalition-building, not just hope that people are naturally smart enough to come to the right conclusions on their own.

Nick Fuentes? More deserving imo

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