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Right, but what do you see everyday?
I can go on multiple social media sites now and find nothing but right leaning sentiment everywhere I go. I go on Facebook and it's filled with Incel groups, local community groups where there are daily posts reminding people of the latest left wing hypocrisy, there's are discords filled with kids sharing memes and ideas to fuck with the left. They are actively participating in the modern world and shaping and spreading their ideas and issues.
The left are absent. We have Lemmy. Barely. The idea of getting shit done is a bullshit protest in Cincinnati nobody cares about. We tell each other to stop engaging people online with our ideas and messages because it's pointless.
FFS you all still think that "Nazi" and "fascists" are sick burns. That's a 40 year old name Republicans have always been called and it's not exactly accurate so it has no sticking power. We're outdated and outworked. The left is fucking dead in the water. That's no effort. There's no content being created. There's no organizing. There's no support for anything. There's no awareness for how to spread anything.
So when you say "you" what do you think is actually going to change here because we have a serious problem of not organizing and not engaging and not addressing why we are ineffective. Protests haven't done shit for decades. Considering how much there has been vs how much change has occurred. There's no adaptation to the new world. You'd think with all these artists and comedians and brains the left claim there are we'd be more effective.