/b/ - Siberia

I know I've been beating this dead horse for weeks now, it's just that the Left really fucking sucks at internet propaganda.
Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away. Now the next generation after Zoomers are addicted to watching Andrew Tate and think the only way to "make it" in America is a crypto AI scam. How did the Left fail so hard that we couldn't counter this messaging at all?

've noticed there's a trend with the American left to have these kneejerk reactions to whatever the right says on issues that have nuances. Basically whatever right wingers say is bad must be good or isn't real, like pornography addiction. With the latter I cannot tell you how many times I've encountered leftists who firmly believe that porn addiction isn't real.

There's LITERALLY white boomers in fucking appalachia that are more concerned with trans people in bathrooms than the fact their children are being diagnosed with cancer from the toxic sludge corporations are pumping into their water supply. These people have completely divorced politics from real world issues. The Right has successfully removed any kind of materialist context and replaced it with random Twitter drama turning into national issues. Meanwhile where is the American Left…? Why is there like no one at all that can counter this?

The left does not like to propagandize because it does not like to do absolutely anything.

Everything is deemed unecessary, liberal or "immature". When people point out that the rightoids propagandize like crazy then its shrugged off by saying "w-well they have the state supporting them and the glowie and uhhh anyway for that reason its pointless to do anything and we should simply allow them to do as they please because we were going to lose the propaganda war anyway, ugh youre such an immature liberal"

>>157085
>Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away.
What year are you writing this from? It was never true.
In 2016 Trump got like 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton and it was still mostly just the usual GOP voters and a some people in the rust belt and elsewhere who switched from D to R because of actual economic issues.
In 2024, Gamergate was less than irrelevant and Trump was running against a genocidal man with visible dementia and a shit economy, and then the DNC switched him out for someone with the exact same policies who had helped cover up Biden's senility.

I agree with most of the rest of your post, so maybe it's silly of me to quibble with that one bit.
The right does have institutional support, and that's a major fact in how the left got fucked up so hard, but it's also not a good excuse either. None of those things are good excuses. For as stacked as things are against the left (and getting worse all the time), the left could be doing a thousand times better than it is if American leftists were willing to take risks. I think there's also something to be said for how often people who see themselves as being on America's left… still fall into the trap of getting bogged down in stupid culture war issues. Culturally, some people are more "socially liberal" or "socially conservative"… but neither of those things is class politics, so trying to condition participation in the entire workers' movement on unanimous agreements about that stuff is obviously a bad idea and a distraction.

The American left desperately needs to take drastic action now and stop being so complacent and cowardly.

>>157087
*major factor