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This but also.... I kinda feel the same about people that treat these "influencers" as if they are supposed to be infallible, and then freak out over every instance of imperfection. Has their been a left side "influencer" in history that didn't say some unhinged shit in their life or have some bad habit or acts? I mean shit, imagine what kind of tweets Marx would have had? He was a great man but he wasn't a saint. I've seen plenty of people on here say we need to not like, worship influencers and treat them as infallible, and yet those same people rant when some influencer shows themselves as having faults. So what is it? Are the supposed to be perfect or aren't they?
Some people have shit takes. I'm not gonna defend a bad take, but I'm analytical enough to know people aren't perfect. I sure as fuck am not. So I look at it like this, Yugo and the dudes on that podcast have done more to bring more people into communism, real actual communism, then I have, so I'm not gonna cast no stones. And I'm sure as fuck not calling him a Nazi for having a rage fit over how fucking crazy Americans and chuds in general are. I hear these people every day. If an intelligent and learned communist can hear the things I've heard, and not at any point think, even once, "there might be something wrong with these people" , then I'd have to question if that person was real.
Hot take...?: Marx having Twitter would've been bad...?
But also Marx had bad takes occasionally anyway. That's the nature of being a person. So what do you do when someone makes mistakes? You criticize them and you work on it. And I'm certainly going to criticize someone who talks about a "sub strata" of humanity. The op didn't say "yugo is a nazi" they said "yugo tweets nazi shit." Which...he did. At the very least it's extremely ableist.
Also, there's a difference between "something might be wrong with these people" and "there's a substrata of humans who can't think correctly." In any case, it's just extremely shit logic, and even more shit logic to go "should I post this to my audience? Hell yeah!"
I think I kinda get where you're coming from on this. Yeah, nobody has the "correct" take all the time. I would say one of the problems here with the influencer type crowd is how many of them don't take the gravity of their position seriously; when they see themselves more as "shitposters" than as columnists, more as memelords than propagandists, more as shock jocks than thought leaders.
Part of this goes back to systemic stuff. The western, english-speaking internet (can't speak for elsewhere) is such that it's easier to be seen by being shocking, memey, and ridiculous than by writing long, well-thought-out essays. In fact, by some you can viewed as annoyingly academic and wordy just for writing a couple of paragraphs. So not only is there an incentive to reduce your communication to soundbite shock value stuff, algorithms drive that stuff to the forefront and make those people more popular compared to the more plodding, "boring" ones.
These kind of people do have something going for them, which is an understanding of marketing. But I do think they need more serious communists in their corner, with an in-depth understanding of theory (and preferably practice too) who can help shape their marketing into more pointed propaganda. Rather than them posting every "hot take" they have for the views.
Edit: Also, this problem that Conselheiro outlined comes to mind:
I'm pretty sure Marx was actively involved in the struggle along with doing heavy observation of its developments. Lenin for sure was, as was Mao. The kind of people that are thought leaders in marxism are people who put it into practice and learned from that practice. "Influencers" can only go so far if they aren't out there organizing. But doing so also puts them more in the crosshairs and so would give them more reason to be cautious about what they say. It's insulation that empowers recklessness.