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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.