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I would love to see posts like this end up on right leaning spaces like critical posts about left leaning issues end up on left leaning spaces.
Trumps base has such a sycophant army that they just swarm spaces and post this stuff every minute of every day. But the opposite doesn't happen. Having even 100 people posting stuff like this across their space would do more than a 10 000 person protest ever could but it amazes me that 10 000 would take time off work, go stand in the rain for a week instead of shit posting effectively.
Yeah, but right leaning spaces block people critical of the right. Just look at the cesspool that is /r/conservative
Pretty much.
So does left spaces but they get through by their conviction to have every random base member spread it. The left is literally asleep
This is based on the faulty liberal assumption that fascists are only fascists because they have yet to be shown all of the facts and logic.
Let's just speed run the scenario where you post this article on a right space: you post the article, every trumper comes out and says the resignations were good because the staffers were woke, and then you scratch your head wondering why your appeal to facts and logic didn't work on fascists. At this point you might just start spamming right spaces and have all your posts go directly to spam.
It's honestly kind of disturbing how you write off actual protests in favor of online activism, and I couldn't think of a more liberal take tbh. Anyone, at this stage of the game, who is taking the position of "less protests, more..." should be evaluated extremely critically - especially if your alternative is spamming r/conservative with liberal thinkpieces.
I can't even post in r/conservative. Once I tried with my old (now banned) account to make a comment to explain quite clearly that what Americans on r/conservative thought of Canadian voter ID laws was simply not true. I couldn't even MAKE the comment. It wasn't some smarmy insult-laden attack, but a very simple and clear statement that in Canada you don't need an ID if you have someone to vouch for you, and that there are literally countless things that would qualify for an appropriate ID to use. It isn't like in some states in the US that have a very, very narrow definition of what is an acceptable ID that it rules out most forms of ID. This isn't the case in Canada (where even a utility bill can suffice).
https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e
Just look at what is accepted as ID in Canada. In the US they would have only a few kinds of ID that not everyone has. In Canada because of universal healthcare, EVERYONE has a healthcare card.
And, I forget the source, voicing your opinions online has shown to be quite useless in terms of making actual change. Will try to find the source if needed.
If all people did was post things online then there is no chance in hell anything would change.
Literally everything has changed with shit posting.
That was trumps entire campaign strategy. Dems mocked them for their online spend and now look. GamerGate, YouTube ads, Swarmfront and 4Chan have shaped the internet discourse to be right leaning on nearly every popular platform. I hate to admit it but shitposting did created change. The alt right pipeline radicalized young men into trump voters.
Be the change you want to see
might be a good idea to make a sub dedicated to organizing your efforts