Alt-text: Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.
source: On Tyranny (Graphic Edition)
Why is that the thing you think is the goal.
Fascists need culture to agree with them. The Internet is very literally a culture creating machine.
Like it fucking baffles me how ignorant leftist are to this fact. It’s so blatantly obvious where they need to apply pressure and instead they’re doing all the exact opposite moves. They’re focusing on physically showing up as the main driver of change. They’re convincing each other to leave all digital platforms. They’re rejecting new technologies that are essentially force multipliers. It’s almost like the other side has a lot of funding and resources to manipulate the left as well as the right.
I agree in that the internet has value in a modern resistance. But how could it possibly be used as the only form of change?
I’ll entertain this thought. Let’s just say we are back in Nazi Germany but we have all modern technology and advancements. Let’s even say it’s a few months before Kristallnacht to give this theortical resistance some time.
How would you propose German citizens form a fully remote resistance against the Nazi government using only the internet to prevent the coming atrocities?
Hitler rise is traced to the struggles German people suffered after WWI. That suffering created cultural views that Hitler seized upon and grew like a tumor.
Culture is born, lives and dies everyday online. As crazy as it is you cannot deny that the Internet has not shaped our every day lives for the best 20 years. You stop these people by spreading and challenging bad views with better ones. You flood the space with content to either drown out the fascists or show why they’re wrong. Every person becomes their own PR team.
It takes 10% of any group to shift their view to reach a critical mass that can change the entire groups opinions. It isn’t much. So the game is too engage that 10% and deny them the same. The problem is when we all decided to up and leave all the digital spaces given them free access to that 10%.
This is why now the entire world seems like they’re saying Charlie was just a good Christian.
The Internet and the media that can be generated is way more powerful than showing up in real life. The funding police have now plus the military component is just proof that showing up in the streets is not going to go well.
I’m also not saying we don’t show up. But it shouldn’t be the first thing. It needs to be better organized and thought out. I hate to say it but the convoy was a perfect example. Thing how much it fucked with police. They can’t arrest everyone. They don’t have enough tow trucks. Most of the tow trucks agreed with the convoy. It was a nightmare for police because they had no idea how to respond. But seems like leftist continue to show up for protests in the same way that police have been training and developing techniques to counter for decades. Just every time I see leftist trying to do something it all feels like it’s action that someone who hates the left who tell them to do.