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They had to watermark Ilhan Omar talking about ICE so right-wing streamers couldn't clip moments out of context (lemmy.today)
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Source: Hasan Minhaj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnfyIieaY6I

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

If you think leftists are congregating every 6 months I suspect you have a mistaken understanding of what constitutes "the left".

That being said, I suspect you are correct to some degree regarding astroturfing in some communities. I used to see a lot of anti-semitism that was in the form of "Jewish people are all X or all do Y" and that has vaporized which makes me think it might have been an op.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I just been there's a new protest every six months. One issue gets dropped and a new one crops up. It's all reactionary. There's no planning or forethought. We're just chasing a pig around instead of trying to meet it at where it's headed. I think much of what the left has done in the past decade has been influenced by the right wing machine more than we're ready to admit. When you start looking between the lines I think it's clear as day.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I will grant that the left is lacking in highly visible and effective leadership that can make specific, coordinated demands. And even that the Democrats are primarily reactionary, as the Democrats are the "face" of the left (with huge caveats about how they're actually just a second conservative party, and not even left because they go out of their way to suppress the left). Democratic party leadership is just bad at politics and afraid to act.

    But the idea that the left has abandoned the digital space is at least an incomplete assessment of the situation when billionaires are allowed to buy the town square and push whatever "algorithm" tweaks they want.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The algorithm can only do so much lifting. Reality is the ability to create content and bring it to the surface to get eyeballs on it is always under our control it just takes awareness that we need to be doing that. This is why they push the opinion that you just said so hard.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Who is "they"? The lizard people? And no, that kind of straight line of content distribution is not under our control. I urge you to prove me wrong. I would actually love for you to make me eat my words here because I'm pretty sick of right wing media dominance and what it has done to ex friends of mine.

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