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Right. So you're telling me that these filthy liberals control the media and they're still unable to stem the tide of extremist countercultural fascists about to unseat them from power all over Europe? What good is tilting the media to the right if you are entirely powerless to stop the fringes from kicking you out?
More to the point, where is the social media manipulation towards the left? How come the fascists can use social media to normalize an extreme but the left cannot?
I'm exhausted by the victimism. At least when the far right plays the victim card they have the common decency to do so in a call for rage-induced action. The left has become accustomed to the "what can you do" school of being a victim. It's infuriating.
I say it again. Get good at old politics or get good at new politics. If Breitbart managed to become the acceptable template for what used to be centre-right conservative press the left has zero excuses.
Capital controls the media, not the left. The concept that the left controls the media is made up in order to justify pushing the goalpost to the right.
It is no different than the conservatives' beef with colleges not giving their ideology safe spaces. This is most pronounced in law schools where conservatives are demanding their "constitutional originalism" reasoning be taught. The problem is, of course, there is no actual legal theory. They just made it up.
You seem to be upset that the left, which is not represented by any political party or corporation is not in control of the narrative. This is by design.
Listen, appealing to the dark side of human nature, othering people, blaming government is easy and works great. It is low hanging fruit stuff. It is effective for control and manipulation. It is also the opposite of what people on the left want.
They are not victims, they just don't have any real power. The US has always been controlled by the wealthy and they are choosing the easy way out to stay in power. Giving the illusion of democracy takes a lot of work and even some occasional minor concessions. It is and always will be an illusion though in our current system.
We really need to form a government that is designed by nature to resist corruption instead of embracing it. Until we have something like that nothing meaningfully will change.
Eh... the left controls my government. There are plenty of leftist parties in Europe (which is what the thread is about).
I mean, last I checked France, Germany and the UK were not in the US, but I may have missed something in the news today.
Otherwise, I can´t stress enough how little I care about what happens to the US. Which is as little as possible but not zero, because I am not allowed to make it zero, which is what I'd really want.
Capital controls your country unless your living in some utopian place I have never heard of. The wealthy continue to amass capital at shocking rates in all of Europe. If the left "controlled" your country this would not be happening so I have to call bullshit.
I can't stress enough that the same thing is happening and will continue to happen everywhere if we don't put a stop to the runaway train. You could care less about the US and what is coming for you. I wish I shared your ignorance, life would seem a lot better
Hah. And here we go. We'll move those goalposts as far as we have to in order to pretend there is nothing we can do.
Man, the US has done some damage, but I am shocked at how pernicious it has been when a handful of them started cosplaying as leftists and pushing their warped view of how all of this works onto the rest of us.
It's true that US-controlled social media exported this model for rising fascism. US leftists are absolutely a part of that process.
I genuinely encourage everybody else in other parts of the world, and particularly in the bits of Europe and America where there is still some leftist organization with some institutional power to cut off as much of US media and social media as possible. Including —especially, even— leftist US media and social media. The worldwide far right is importing the US fascist playbook. We don't win this by mimicking the losing equivalent of their local opposition. There are better alternatives.
The problem is we don't know what to do. Do you have plans to address wealth inequality in your country? If not, then I would say you are going to face the exact same problem.
The US has done so much damage it is almost unbelievable. It really is incredible to think. I believe they toppled 75 countries just during the Cold War. US corporations are directly responsible for most of the environmental disasters we are facing.
I just learned that US companies have 14,000 unplugged oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico and several hundred abandon platforms. The amount of environmental damage is staggering and that is just one spot. Superfund sites are everywhere and companies are not slowing down.
There are no real US leftist, at least not ones in power. Europe, while slightly better, still has mostly left-light in their politics. There are no radical leftist in power that are changing things for the better. They may exist, but how far are they with replacing capitalism and representative democracy?
Governments will probably never be the answer either if we can't reign in the most dominant force in our world known as corporations. Which, at the direction of the wealthy, are destroying our environment and culture at a break neck pace.
We are all in this together, there is only on Earth. As long as we keep playing the game the wealthy want us to we are sunk.
Do we have plans? Yeah, we have plans. What we need is to keep getting the votes. It's moving in the right direction.
And no, we aren't in this together. You can't expect to be all "America First" as a country, spend a solid century enforcing your take on geopolitics, half of which was ran as the sole dominant superpower and then go "it's all one Earth" the moment crap goes South.
Clean up your own house, let's see if we can keep ours clean, and then the survivors can talk about this "one Earth" thing. But I'm not willing to listen to how you don't know what to do in the meantime. Even less so when you slide into a conversation about European politics assuming the US is the default.
It's politics, not therapy. Go start an indefinite general strike. We'll be here when you report back.
Hey buddy. You're talking real fast. I dont think you know what you're talking about.
Commenter clearly said billionaire media outlets are right leaning and control discourse. Billionaires are all right leaning. Billionaires fund breitbart. How did breitbart become mainstream? Because they were funded by multiple fascist Billionaires to advance their agenda.
Oh you mean on the nazi platform owned by a nazi billionaire? Or do you mean on Facebook, also owned by a billionaire? I guess you mean lemmy, because thats what "leftist" social media looks like. Oh wow we arent dictating discourse because our app doesn't make anyone money, big fucking shocker. Not to mention every kamala voter on this app needs to make sure than anyone to the left of her is shouted down. The left is really making waves.
People feel this way because it is literally only regular people asking for left wing policy and all of the power to influence politics is in the money. Nobody has any money because it was stolen from them by these same people who control all the social media, the news, and all the politicians. So people say "theres nothing we can do" because none of the Billionaires are going to suddenly stop being Billionaires and then nuke the rest of them from orbit.
If its so easy to start communist breitbart then go do that shit dude, if you've got it so figured out then why are you here talking? You wont, because this is cope. Plenty of people are making left wing media and driving conversation towards socialism but they're making no money from it and getting no reach because they're principled socialists doing educational socialist advocacy. Read: nobody with money would ever in a million years fund them the way the right wing funds tim pool, benny johnson, ben shapiro, jordan peterson, joe rogan, matt walsh, and you get the point now? Billionaires OPPOSE our viewpoints. Our shit is in workshops and union halls, not on TV. Thats why this disconnect is so large, because you dont broadcast socialism into people the same way you do bigotry.
Build a cadre and start doing the work, we dont need a top down authority to direct us like the troglodytes on the right. The "what can you do" attitude is towards billionaires controlling media not social revolution.
See, that's some more excuses.
Turns out that a) back when the centrist liberals were quite close with those billionaires and didn't want to rock the boat the far right still managed to sway both the billionaires themselves and politics overall rightward straight from the fringes, which the left hasn't been able to mirror then or now.
But, more importantly, b) why is your app so shitty? I mean, sure, the other guys were able to cozy up to money, create, fund or buy platforms and pull poltiical strings. So we were what? Developing open source communication protocols that didn't manage to get people to stick around even when the nazi billionaire had multiple public breakdowns?
See, the problem with that is the "if you don't like it fix it yourself" attitude works about as well in politics as it does in open source software. Which is to say, not at all. It's... actually kinda scary how well those two things map together. Nobody is in charge, nobody is getting paid, nobody wants to do anything and if enough people get together to actually try without corporate sponsorship you end up with a bunch of identical forks, none of which work particulary well.
But hey, by all means, enjoy your artisanal socialism and lose with dignity. I'm sure the moral pangs will make the well organized fascists really regret steamrolling the loose smattering of well informed cadres in union halls.
I don't have it "figured out", but I can certainly tell you that small scale zero budget grassroots action splintered across a multitude of factions delineated by random purity tests is not going to do much. That's also why I have zero interest in starting yet another useless splinter of any kind.
There is an opportunity to rally anger around an alternative and yes, it will take unification, a charismatic leader and plenty of top down authority to get it going. The left is dropping the ball massively on all of those fronts. Get me that and I won't care if it aligns with my particular brand of leftism, I'll vote for it and support it publicly.
I mean, I already do, I live in a country with a left-leaning government, at least for now, and I will continue to vote for leftist parties here regardless of what happens or what they do for the foreseeable future. But... you know, in places where they don't have a functional left wing apparatus.