Imagine believing that the “news” is more informative than social media.
I would argue the exact opposite. People who get news from social media are far more informed about issues like the ongoing genocide in palestine, than those who are indoctrinated by the phony narratives of capitalist/imperialist media. Ofc brainwashed NPR listeners and NYTimes readers are going to believe in kamalacaust. That’s the actual problem.
Also that graph doesn’t actually show anything about what “news” is being “consumed” or how the study was done, etc. It’s probably just more lib BS.
You’re cherry-picking one issue, and ignoring the absolute FLOOD of misinformation and propaganda that is filling those social platforms. Not to mention that those honest critiques of the US’s complicity in genocide are picked up and weaponized by bad actors across the spectrum. Most people have not been taught to critically consume news, they just go on vibes. Corporate news, social media, it’s all broken, and none of it is serving people’s best interests. I would argue that informed voters were stuck between a rock and a hard place; we knew that the Harris campaign was just more neoliberal bullshit, but the Trump vision of the world is so much worse. Social media is causing so much more harm than good, and the people in charge of those platforms absolutely do not have your best interests in mind. All they care about is engagement metrics, and nothing drives that more then anger and fear
Not at all, people who get their news in short form video format all lean rightward or are completely captured by the far right. People who get their news from social media posts on Facebook and Instagram are far more likely to lean right. We’re in this mess because the only.ones looking to jump on new avenues of information distribution were those that were cut out of the traditional ones, fascists and other right wing extremists. The kind of social media you consume matters. Here, a lot of us read articles with citations.
This mirrors how I’ve been thinking about the broader world trends. The neo-liberal world order is dying. It has solved all the problems it has the capacity to solve, and the people have run out of patience with the problems it can’t.
The groups that have been best positioned to fill the gaps created by these retreating institutions are the ones that had always been excluded; nationalists, authoritarians, xenophobes of all kinds, et al. The left? They joined the neo-liberal coalition to try to change the system from the inside, or refused to participate and languished in obscurity.
IMHO if we’re going to avoid a century of oppression, the left needs to abandon the neo-liberal coalition, and get into the fight for what comes next. We’re already two steps behind.
The left? They joined the neo-liberal coalition to try to change the system from the inside, or refused to participate and languished in obscurity.
The left were deliberately targeted, suppressed, and even outright killed by that system in a way that the right weren’t. Think the Red Scare, COINTELPRO, etc.
The groups that have been best positioned to fill the gaps created by these retreating institutions are the ones that had always been excluded; nationalists, authoritarians, xenophobes of all kinds, et al. The left? They joined the neo-liberal coalition to try to change the system from the inside, or refused to participate and languished in obscurity.
Damn this one is insightful as hell. Honestly deserves a thread of it’s own.
Imagine believing that the “news” is more informative than social media.
I would argue the exact opposite. People who get news from social media are far more informed about issues like the ongoing genocide in palestine, than those who are indoctrinated by the phony narratives of capitalist/imperialist media. Ofc brainwashed NPR listeners and NYTimes readers are going to believe in kamalacaust. That’s the actual problem.
Also that graph doesn’t actually show anything about what “news” is being “consumed” or how the study was done, etc. It’s probably just more lib BS.
You’re cherry-picking one issue, and ignoring the absolute FLOOD of misinformation and propaganda that is filling those social platforms. Not to mention that those honest critiques of the US’s complicity in genocide are picked up and weaponized by bad actors across the spectrum. Most people have not been taught to critically consume news, they just go on vibes. Corporate news, social media, it’s all broken, and none of it is serving people’s best interests. I would argue that informed voters were stuck between a rock and a hard place; we knew that the Harris campaign was just more neoliberal bullshit, but the Trump vision of the world is so much worse. Social media is causing so much more harm than good, and the people in charge of those platforms absolutely do not have your best interests in mind. All they care about is engagement metrics, and nothing drives that more then anger and fear
Not at all, people who get their news in short form video format all lean rightward or are completely captured by the far right. People who get their news from social media posts on Facebook and Instagram are far more likely to lean right. We’re in this mess because the only.ones looking to jump on new avenues of information distribution were those that were cut out of the traditional ones, fascists and other right wing extremists. The kind of social media you consume matters. Here, a lot of us read articles with citations.
This mirrors how I’ve been thinking about the broader world trends. The neo-liberal world order is dying. It has solved all the problems it has the capacity to solve, and the people have run out of patience with the problems it can’t.
The groups that have been best positioned to fill the gaps created by these retreating institutions are the ones that had always been excluded; nationalists, authoritarians, xenophobes of all kinds, et al. The left? They joined the neo-liberal coalition to try to change the system from the inside, or refused to participate and languished in obscurity.
IMHO if we’re going to avoid a century of oppression, the left needs to abandon the neo-liberal coalition, and get into the fight for what comes next. We’re already two steps behind.
The left were deliberately targeted, suppressed, and even outright killed by that system in a way that the right weren’t. Think the Red Scare, COINTELPRO, etc.
Damn this one is insightful as hell. Honestly deserves a thread of it’s own.