Preparing for the US acquisition.
The Deprogram Podcast
"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985
International Anti-Capitalist podcast run by an American, a Slav and an Arab.
Rules:
- No capitalist apologia / anti-communism.
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful. This is a safe space where all comrades should feel welcome; this includes a warning against uncritical sectarianism.
- No porn or sexually explicit content (even if marked NSFW).
- No right-deviationists (patsocs, nazbols, Strasserists, Duginists, etc).
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We've watched social media algorithms openly and flagrantly push fascist content for over a decade now, to the point that even charlie fucking nobody kirk apparently had 2x the subscriber count of the biggest communist channel, that doesn't happen by accident, and the people responsible have names and addresses
It's probably somehow connected with your recommendation algorithm, my tt feed is full of videos about China and daily life here, and the majority of comments are praising China and socialism, some Nazis are here too ofc but they are usually ignored or get dunked in
Neo-nazis have a long history of promoting online. I think it's the case especially since it's hard for them to do regular propaganda IRL without getting beaten up, and it gives them easy access to alienated young people (this is not a new development). I don't use TikTok so I don't know if there's anything special about that platform beyond being hip and widely-used.
I also think an aspect is that the online world is (still) a refuge for those unable to express themselves in public. It's no secret that even among the right-wing, neo-Nazis are controversial, I saw a video posted on Lemmy today of an Australian antifascist YouTuber talking about how neo-Nazis organized a cryptofascist nationalist march and still faced some resistance from attendees once their mask-off speakers took stage, using plainclothes plants to try and get others to cheer and still getting shut down in their own rally in one of the cities. So online is really the only place they can freely express themselves without having to invite a whole violent crew to protect them.
I gotta delete my acc like jfc I just wanted to watch stupid videos while shitting.
Good move. Social media is bad enough (yes, even the online left) but mainstream social media is an addictive-by-design clown show.