If you're right and you aren't willing to actually communicate why, or worse, if you're right and you don't even understand why, you might as well be wrong.

If you're going to argue with people on the internet, and I know you are, either go full irony or actually take time to work out an argument that you know is going to be persuasive, none of this halvsies shit.

I was on the edge of becoming a leftist for like six months. That's literally how long it took for me to even be exposed to the idea that capitalism is bad for inherent and structural reasons, and not because of all the really obvious shit that liberals also disagree with but think can be reformed away.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    It’s not really that helpful anyway.

    It's not always helpful, but it can be. We need at least tens of millions more people on our side to get anything big done, and even if the material conditions are right to push people towards our side, they still need someone to light the way.

    What's helpful is:

    • Getting a good leftist message out there where a lot of people will see it (or where you almost never see a leftist message)
    • Providing a good leftist rebuttal to chud talking points
    • Finding someone who appears to be genuinely curious and giving them some leftist content to consider
    • Identifying/challenging pro-capitalist propaganda
    • Engaging with fellow leftists to figure out your own beliefs and figure out the best way to communicate them

    What's not helpful is:

    • Getting into arguments no one will ever read
    • Posting weak shit that won't convince anyone
    • Losing sight of the fact that most people who use social media never engage with it; they just read
    • Spending too much time in friendly spaces and not enough time getting the message out where it's not already accepted
    • Wasting time on chuds who will endlessly debate you in bad faith and never come around

    Propaganda works, folks, and we're either doing it or standing by while it's done to us.