Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
Originally Posted By u/MrsWidgery At 2025-03-30 05:28:18 PM | Source
The difference is I actually do actively organize within my community. But I’m not an American. And I’m guessing by “the extremely online left” he’s using the American version of left, which is Democrat base. Which are liberals. Leftists organize a lot more than liberals seem to.
In the US? I don’t think so. The American left ranges from “residual” to “existing only online”. By most counts they loathe the Democrats as much or more than the actual fascists. Although I would also certainly include the entitled left-of-centre US progressive liberals that spent the entire campaign complaining that Democrats weren’t “exciting them” enough or that they didn’t have a magic wand to solve this or that issue they cared about personally.
Neither group comes even close to having the zealous willingness to organize and take action the US right has. From harassing political oponents up and down the education system to disingenuous protests about their figureheads being shunned to an outright coup attempt. As the article says, the US right is both way more likely to show up to be publicly annoying and to receive both implicit and explicit endorsement from national political figures when doing so.
The difference is I actually do actively organize within my community. But I’m not an American. And I’m guessing by “the extremely online left” he’s using the American version of left, which is Democrat base. Which are liberals. Leftists organize a lot more than liberals seem to.
In the US? I don’t think so. The American left ranges from “residual” to “existing only online”. By most counts they loathe the Democrats as much or more than the actual fascists. Although I would also certainly include the entitled left-of-centre US progressive liberals that spent the entire campaign complaining that Democrats weren’t “exciting them” enough or that they didn’t have a magic wand to solve this or that issue they cared about personally.
Neither group comes even close to having the zealous willingness to organize and take action the US right has. From harassing political oponents up and down the education system to disingenuous protests about their figureheads being shunned to an outright coup attempt. As the article says, the US right is both way more likely to show up to be publicly annoying and to receive both implicit and explicit endorsement from national political figures when doing so.