its insane, every local reddit i've seen these protests are like the top 5-15 posts, liberal tea party (kombucha party? coffee party?) incoming if dem electeds dont get their act together
i think liberals should fullthroatedly embrace the whole "cosmopolitain queer big city elite" vibe, its way better than any of the """working class""" f15,000,000 third generation car dealer owner bullshit.
Given a choice just between those two, absolutely. And personal self expression wise, people should embrace absolutely whatever they want.
For the coalition as a whole, I think it’s at least in part a tactical decision. Like how using the flag at the current protests is and will be very important.
I think there was also some internalisation of the line that tertiary educated white collar workers weren't doing 'real jobs'. The fed layoffs in particular are waking these people up to exactly how essential they are in keeping modern society functioning.
I took the society with the greatest power, prestige, and prosperity in human history and subjected its most educated and socially progressive professions to merciless proletarization for three decades. Now to deliver a massive shock to its most loadbearing institutions and take a big sip of coffee-
Coffee Party was something they tried in the wake of the Tea Party movement and it didn't take off. I think trying to build off of the Tea Party branding is a mistake. This needs to be its own thing.
I liked one I saw: The Alliance to Restore the Constitution. Clear goals, and a Star Wars reference
The median Redditor to me is a college graduate who works a white collar job and rents while making ~100k in a major metro. That's almost ideal for the left
It's crazy to me to think about what it was like in 2014-16 at the height of Gamergate, KiA/TiA, The_Donald, FatPeopleHate and compare it to what it is now
And this is despite the owner having survivalist bullshit tendencies
really wonder what the case study is here. Independent mods?
Reddit always struck me as the ones to actually man the barricades while Twitter (pre-Elon) would complain that barricades are ableist, and that "manning" them is perpetuating the patriarchy.
Maybe b/c it's not really been relevant to political organizing in recent years. People on there are mostly hard left but are copying notes from tiktok, Reddit, formerly twitter and now: bluesky
It's weird that they haven't gone fash, considering what Alexis is like. Maybe Serena has been a good influence on him. I'm still too salty about the third-party app stuff to go back to reddit myself, though.
Many subs have split into one for normies & one that brags about free speech
So you have r/lotr, which banned X links, & r/lordoftherings, which mocked them, or r/Portland, where people who hate the homeless vote down the ones who don't & r/PortlandOR, where absolutely everyone hates them.
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For the coalition as a whole, I think it’s at least in part a tactical decision. Like how using the flag at the current protests is and will be very important.
I liked one I saw: The Alliance to Restore the Constitution. Clear goals, and a Star Wars reference
And this is despite the owner having survivalist bullshit tendencies
really wonder what the case study is here. Independent mods?
Tumblr: Dead
Facebook: Radio Rwanda for boomers
Other meta platforms: It’s meta
Bluesky: Too small
Twitter: Do I need to elaborate?
Maybe b/c it's not really been relevant to political organizing in recent years. People on there are mostly hard left but are copying notes from tiktok, Reddit, formerly twitter and now: bluesky
The Twitter and BlueSky model of one big conversation pit has pros and cons.
So you have r/lotr, which banned X links, & r/lordoftherings, which mocked them, or r/Portland, where people who hate the homeless vote down the ones who don't & r/PortlandOR, where absolutely everyone hates them.
I do think the hatred for "Redditors" or using "Reddit" as a pejorative has always been extremely overblown.
But at LEAST the site's structure makes it relatively easy to quarantine the worst communities.