I mean, I’d guess most people here don’t think posting memes is a substitute for effective political action. I share your disdain for terminally online lefties (which I guess includes myself), but someone could be dunking on liberals online and doing politics offline. OP could be an active member of their local DSA chapter for all we know. Posting and looking at memes is just entertainment; it doesn’t need to automatically come at the cost of productive work.
Right. You could totally be right about OPs offline political engagement. My critique is more directed at the entirety of the online leftist media apparatus (the twitch streamers, the youtubers, the online pundits, etc). These people are so wrapped in their own personas and audience capture, that they are essentially worthless at building any political power or anything that resembles a movement.
We have twitch streamers with insanely huge audiences like Hassan, who claims to be a socialist, but whenever he’s offered a chance to expand the message or gain some kind of momentum he shoots it down. There seems to be no will or strategy to expand this effort beyond maybe growing youtube subscribers. That’s it. So when I see the same memes posted on lemmy, day after day, I have to wonder: what is the end goal?
I mean, I’d guess most people here don’t think posting memes is a substitute for effective political action. I share your disdain for terminally online lefties (which I guess includes myself), but someone could be dunking on liberals online and doing politics offline. OP could be an active member of their local DSA chapter for all we know. Posting and looking at memes is just entertainment; it doesn’t need to automatically come at the cost of productive work.
Right. You could totally be right about OPs offline political engagement. My critique is more directed at the entirety of the online leftist media apparatus (the twitch streamers, the youtubers, the online pundits, etc). These people are so wrapped in their own personas and audience capture, that they are essentially worthless at building any political power or anything that resembles a movement.
We have twitch streamers with insanely huge audiences like Hassan, who claims to be a socialist, but whenever he’s offered a chance to expand the message or gain some kind of momentum he shoots it down. There seems to be no will or strategy to expand this effort beyond maybe growing youtube subscribers. That’s it. So when I see the same memes posted on lemmy, day after day, I have to wonder: what is the end goal?